Having issues with your DietPi installation, or, found a bug? Post it here.
The_Raven
Posts: 18 Joined: Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:51 pm
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by The_Raven » Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:26 pm
This issue exist now for a long time. The problem and the fix is simple:
User "dietpi" must be in the group "video".
usermod -a -G video dietpi
I have to do this every time when setting up a new Pi, so please fix it
Hazcrew
Posts: 2 Joined: Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:55 pm
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by Hazcrew » Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:06 pm
Thank you
@TamaTamaGoGo
Not being able to run the desktop is a user is major issue and such a minor/easy fix.
I was going to give up on DietPi and go back to Rasbian until I found this post.
I would have thought it could be easily addressed.
Joulinar
Posts: 3131 Joined: Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:49 am
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by Joulinar » Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:09 pm
@Hazcrew
before giving up, you always welcome to raise your question on GitHub or this board.
Regarding the challenge to start a desktop as non-Root user. This is known and might change on a future version
viewtopic.php?p=28867#p28867
Pls let us know if a solution is working. This could help others if they hit by similar situation. Your DietPi Team