Post by @UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com

2026-10-07 06:39 UTC

I can't get rootless xorg to work Nvidia, voidlinux, sddm. It doesn’t get past plymouth (I can still get to the console with ctrl alt functionthing ofc) I’ve tried setting the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 (i did xbps-reconfigure -fa after that) in console thing in /etc/default/grub. I’ve enabled elogind as a service. I obviously did /etc/sddm.conf.d/rootless-x11.conf [General] DisplayServer=x11-user sddm doesn’t work after that until i change x11-user for x11. I also did /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config needs_root_roghts = no allowed_users=anybody But that one doesn’t really seem to change much. I also removed the execs from some part of the xinit ig.

Replies (6)

@UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com 2026-10-07 06:40

sddm just says it failrd to change owner of the socket.

Open ##4948802
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2026-10-07 06:48

needs_root_roghts = no Is that correct?

Open ##4948830
@A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 2026-10-07 08:30

I’m feel you’re jumping right into the problem from some tutorial or not-so-common knowledge. We do not have that context. Is “x11-user” defined anywhere? sddm must know what to do with that setting.

Open ##4949070
@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-10-07 09:28

Shouldn’t you replace “x11-user” with your username? If you still can’t get it to work, take a look here and try the startx comand on a tty first (a display-mamager is yet another layer of complexity and potential blockers). If you get permission errors, try adding your user to the video group. If you want to do it manually (without some limitations of startx), take a look at sx.

Open ##4949234
@DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 2026-10-07 16:54

no idea if relevant, but isn’t ‘needs_root_roghts’ a typo? not ‘rights’ ?

Open ##4952288
@Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 2026-10-07 19:31

Just curious, why would you want to start the X11 server as user?

Open ##4953254