On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:42:48AM +0000, Ognen B via Dng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I have just upgraded my machine from Jessie to Ascii, and I am having
> some issues. Specifically:
>
> 1. startx as non-root user no longer works. Now I keep getting "permission
> denied" for X when it attempts to start.
>
> This isn't completely surprising, as I read the upgrade notes, and it said
> that there have been some changes to xorg, and to get the old behaviour you
> need "xserver-xorg-legacy" installed.
>
> However I have that package installed, but it still doesn't work. What do I
> need to do to get this working again?

Hi Ognen,

please read through the ASCII Release notes:

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

The relevant section is "Starting X from a terminal". You should add a
line in Xwrapper.config for that to work.

HTH

KatolaZ

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