When using Desktop Linux distribution, startx is not used. But startx provides running X application directly without lightdm. startx is useful for dwm which is light weight desktop environment. This article will describe usage of startx.
Table of Contents
1 Stop lightdm
Stopping lightdm is needed for creating xorg.conf and running startx.
$ sudo systemctl stop lightdm $ sudo systemctl disable lightdm
2 Create xorg.conf
Create xorg.conf with "Xorg -configure".
$ Xorg -configure $ sudo cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
3 Add SUID to /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
Running startx will cause the following error.
(EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
For avoiding this error, add SUID to /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.
$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
4 Running startx
This article will use xeyes as X application. Write xeyes to .xsession and run startx on tty1.
$ echo xeyes > ~/.xsession $ startx
xeyes is running. For stopping xeyes, run "killall -KILL xeyes" on tty2.
