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[taku-s]

Hi.all
I will ask you a question again.

An application created with Qt WidgetApplication can be executed with user privileges, but an error will occur if executed as root.

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qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display: 0
Could not connect to any X display

This state becomes a problem when starting an application from rc.local.

Is there a solution?

[aha_1980]

Hi @taku-s,

Does your program needs to be run as root? (which would be a very bad idea).

Otherwise start it with su -c yourprog <user>.

Regards

[JonB]

@taku-s
I may not know what I am talking about here. So take with a pinch of salt. But (a) I thought there are sometimes problems with running X Windows programs as root instead of logged in user, and (b) if you start an app from rc.local what is it doing looking for an X display anything, you cannot access/assume any X connection anything from there, it's not supposed to be for programs requiring UI interaction?

[taku-s]

Thank you, everyone.
As you said, it may not be a Qt issue.
The Debian 10 I use seems to have changed from Xorg to Wayland, so this is the problem?
I will try the startup method from the user.