Bug 1078810

Summary:	sddm: RFE: add support for starting X inside a user session for: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XorgWithoutRootRights
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component:	sddm	Assignee:	Jiri Eischmann <jeischma>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	alecm, h.reindl, jgrulich, kevin, ngompa13, rdieter, travier
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Last Closed:	2022-03-05 15:19:12 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Hans de Goede 2014-03-20 10:47:25 UTC

Hi,

Please add support for starting X inside a user session, so the Xorg can work without being suid root, for more details see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XorgWithoutRootRights

Thanks & Regards,

Hans

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2016-05-20 15:20:05 UTC

Upstream tracker,
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/246

Comment 2 Harald Reindl 2017-03-28 13:13:17 UTC

horrible that there is no progress within 3 years and it smells like Wayland would be production ready before that happens - will SSDM at least work with Wayland in a relevant point of time?

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2017-03-28 13:19:41 UTC

Good question for upstream (development doesn't happen here in fedora)

Comment 4 Martin Bříza 2017-03-28 13:54:34 UTC

As far as I know, SDDM works with Wayland already.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2017-03-28 14:05:02 UTC

sddm can be used to start wayland user sessions, but sddm itself doesn't (use wayland) as far as I know.

Comment 6 Martin Bříza 2017-03-28 14:08:08 UTC

Well, that's what was Harald talking about, I guess.
Anyway, there's work on supporting X User sessions here: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/673 
And Wayland in the greeter here: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/616

With some poking it could be done soon-ish.

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2021-04-14 17:15:36 UTC

new upstream work in progress,

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1371

Comment 9 Neal Gompa 2022-03-05 15:19:12 UTC

This is integrated in SDDM in F36 with the sddm-x11 package.

Comment 10 Neal Gompa 2022-03-05 15:20:03 UTC

Note that the default for F36+ is Wayland right now, so you have to switch to X11 for that.