Phantasm on Nostr: Completely forgot than an X server started with a display manager runs as root. I ...
Completely forgot than an X server started with a display manager runs as root. I think only sddm has experimental support for Xorg as root.
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2026-10-25 15:33:30 UTCEvent JSON
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