On 06/15/2018 02:24 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> I installed ascii 2.0.0 without desktop. Usually I have installed the
> packages associated with the xserver: xserver-xorg-video-dummy,
> xserver-xorg-input-void, xserver-xorg-core, xinit and x11-xserver-utils.
>
> But in ascii release notes it says, "In Devuan 2.0 ASCII it is
> sufficient to install 'elogind' and 'libpam-elogind', and then use
> either 'startx' or 'xinit' as usual from a regular user account."
> Is this implying that I do not need to install the xserver files listed
> above? Or must they be installed, and the elogind simply relocates the X
> server log?
>

Adding elogind makes it so you can run startx without installing
xserver-xorg-legacy and adding root rights to Xwrapper.config. You will be
running all parts of X as user. You do still need to install those parts.

fsmithred