I can't get rootless xorg to work (reddthat.com)

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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_rights = 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.

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[-] TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Hey, use namei with some flags to find out if the directory lets the socket be created by that user and if there’s a directory in the tree that keeps that user from traversing it.

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