Hello, <dian_ce...@zoho.com> skribis:
> I have tried several times to get X.org (/bin/X, specifically) > setuid for obvious reasons. However, I can't find any examples of usage > and attempting to follow the infopages has led to a bunch of different > errors and failures (and rather useless error messages). I currently > don't have any useful logs of what I tried and the output (it was on a > LiveUSB I'm using for testing purposes), but I'm not wanting to use > %desktop-services (or other service packs, for that matter), which has > already been suggested. To complement what Marius wrote, note that you don’t have to use ‘%desktop-services’ as-is to get X running. You can remove services you don’t want from ‘%desktop-services’ as shown at <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#System-Services> (search for “remove”), or you can build your own service list. In the latter case, you’ll want at least ‘slim-service’ or ‘sddm-service’ for the graphical login manager. See <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/X-Window.html> and <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/services/desktop.scm#n749>. If you don’t want a graphical login manager, the solution would be to install ‘xinit’ (which provides the ‘startx’ command) rather than make Xorg setuid-root. However, people reported in the past that there were problems with ‘xinit’, though I forgot what it was. HTH, Ludo’.
