On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:49:03PM +0200, Arto Huusko wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having problems running X server as root user. I earlier asked for
> help with GDM, but received none. As I explored, I came to conclusion
> that GDM doesn't work correctly because X won't run under root correctly.
> 
> When I start X as normal user via startx it works a treat. If I start
> X as root (via startx) I get following behaviour: many (most) things don't
> render correctly and if I switch back to text mode virtual terminals
> with Ctrl-Alt-Fkey and then back to X screen, the screen has become
> corrupted. This doesn't happen when running X as normal user, and
> the rendering is just fine then, too.
> 
> I would really appreciate any help, because some display manager is
> a better idea than startx...

I use XDM and I don't notice any problems.  I think XDM gets started as
root by NetBSD's startup script.

Ben
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