On 12/4/20 2:04 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Klaus Jantzen wrote:
Hi,
yesterday I encountered a problem with using the console with zsh.
In the internet I found a "solution": modify 'allowed_users' in
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.
I made the change and that was it.
Now the autlogin does not work anymore. Instead the normal login screen is
shown. But the login as the normal user results in
a short blank screen and a new login screen is shown (obviously the system
does not like me anymore); i.e. I cannot log in as user.
I can log in as root and can do whatever I want there.
I am using Debian Buster AMD64 (updated weekly), XFCE4 desktop with lightdm.
Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this problem?
Obviously, some users are not allowed_users.
man Xwrapper.config says:
allowed_users = rootonly|console|anybody
Specify which users may start the X server
through the wrapper. Use rootonly to only allow root, use console to
only allow users logged into a physical console, and use anybody to
allow anybody. The default is console.
Have you set it to "anybody"?
-dsr-
Thanks for your quick reply.
Originally the setting in Xwrapper.config was 'allowed-users=console'.
I changed that to '...=anybody' and that 'killed me'.
Even a 'dpkg-reconfigure ..' as recommended in the comments of
Xwrapper.config did not help.
Looking further I found a rather brutal solution to the problem:
==> remove ~/.Xauthority
I did that, I can login, autologin works: my machine accepts me as user
again!
The original problem still exists, but that seems to be a
zsh/xorg-problem. I will have to see how that can be resolved.
K.D.J.
