Larry Doolittle composed on 2022-03-30 19:31 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote:
>> Is the problem avoided if you login via a display manager (gdm, sddm, >> lightdm, >> etc.) instead of using startx? > Beats me. I don't have any software like that installed. You could install one. Try LightDM. Uncompressed Size: 852 k, plus whatever deps. > Would they run xauth before or after cd'ing to my home directory? I don't know the middle of the chains of events that gets an X sessions started, whether via DM, or startx, only some start and end points. I booted up a Bullseye installation to multi-user.target, logged in, then ran startx, and got this: # ls -alrtgG | tail -n9 drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 Feb 9 20:36 .mc drwxr-xr-x 27 4096 Mar 16 21:23 .. -rw------- 1 33857 Mar 30 20:20 .bash_history -rw------- 1 99 Mar 30 20:23 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 52 Mar 30 20:23 .DCOPserver_ab560__0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Mar 30 20:23 .DCOPserver_ab560_:0 -> /root/.DCOPserver_ab560__0 -rw------- 1 31 Mar 30 20:23 .mcoprc drwx------ 15 4096 Mar 30 20:23 . -rw------- 1 103873 Mar 30 20:23 .xsession-errors Next I rebooted to graphical.target, logged in, and got this: # ls -alrtgG | tail -n9 drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 Feb 9 20:36 .mc drwxr-xr-x 27 4096 Mar 30 20:39 .. -rw------- 1 99 Mar 30 20:49 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 52 Mar 30 20:49 .DCOPserver_ab560__0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Mar 30 20:49 .DCOPserver_ab560_:0 -> /root/.DCOPserver_ab560__0 -rw------- 1 31 Mar 30 20:49 .mcoprc -rw------- 1 34072 Mar 30 20:49 .bash_history drwx------ 15 4096 Mar 30 20:49 . -rw------- 1 48801 Mar 30 20:49 .xsession-errors -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata