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Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 07:21:35PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> The gods of security have decreed that instead of startx you must use a display
> manager to login and start your X session.

Utter nonsense.  startx works in every release of Debian.  Every single
one.  I use it myself.

Be aware that under *current* Debian releases (stretch and buster), an
attempt is made to run the X server as your own user instead of setuid
to root.  In order for that to work, your user must be able to login
successfully with a full systemd login session.  If your user account is
defined locally in /etc/passwd, and if you haven't done anything unusual
to your init system or kernel boot parameters, and if you have all of
the required firmware, it should just work.

This also means your X log file may be in ~/.local/share/xorg/ instead
of in /var/log/.

See <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInStretch>.

(Under buster, if your users are defined in a network service like NIS
or possibly LDAP, you may have to take special steps to allow systemd
to retrieve your account credentials.  See bug #878625.  We can worry
about that if it becomes relevant.)

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Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2019-06-19 00:50 +0200
  Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-19 01:00 +0200
  Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-19 01:30 +0200
  Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-19 01:30 +0200
    Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2019-06-19 04:20 +0200
    Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-19 14:40 +0200
  Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-19 20:00 +0200
    Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-19 20:20 +0200

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