We are celebrating the fourth anniversary of this bug. Perhaps xinit should be removed from Ubuntu if it's not a maintained package anymore?
This bug is still affecting me on latest 20.04 distribution. I have tried the following workarounds
- Setuid root for /usr/bin/Xorg (or setgid)
- Adding user to tty group
- Logging in to tty1 with the same user I start the X session with
- chmod 666 /dev/tty1
None of these work.
The only option that works is installing xserver-xorg-legacy and configuring /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config as follows:
I opened up https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ xinit/+ bug/1876119 which is a duplicate of this bug.
We are celebrating the fourth anniversary of this bug. Perhaps xinit should be removed from Ubuntu if it's not a maintained package anymore?
This bug is still affecting me on latest 20.04 distribution. I have tried the following workarounds
- Setuid root for /usr/bin/Xorg (or setgid)
- Adding user to tty group
- Logging in to tty1 with the same user I start the X session with
- chmod 666 /dev/tty1
None of these work.
The only option that works is installing xserver-xorg-legacy and configuring /etc/X11/ Xwrapper. config as follows:
allowed_ users=anybody rights= yes
needs_root_
The only option