How to start X as non root user without using display manager

C R McClenaghan chris at mcclenaghan.com
Thu Sep 4 01:44:01 CEST 2008


I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone.
Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a  
display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid <name|uid> option  
to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - "X: user not  
authorized to run the X server, aborting". If I login using a usb  
keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem.

Thoughts?

Chris




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