On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 06:58:01AM +1100, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote:
> Hi Alessandro
>
> Th existing install was working with slim. However after installing xdm
> startx run as a normal user wouldn't start, but it did run as root.
>

Ozi, please have a look at the Ascii release notes:

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt

there is a section on X and how to run it from user.

HTH

KatolaZ

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