{"id":3496,"date":"2026-08-19T23:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:30:23","slug":"fedora-next-release-changes-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3496","title":{"rendered":"Fedora – Next Release Changes Console.. – Update.."},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that this change has been reverted, for the time being, and good old # startx<\/strong> etc. works again..<\/p>\n

On my Fedora 45<\/strong> pre-release test system, with local text console, I found that my old # startx<\/strong> command no longer worked, and threw:
\n\/usr\/libexec\/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server<\/strong><\/span>
\nxinit: giving up<\/strong><\/span>
\nxinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused<\/strong><\/span>
\nxinit: server error<\/strong><\/span>
\nCouldn’t get a file descriptor referring to the console.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

After more research, I found that the latest F45 pre-release has now activated kmscon<\/strong> as the default console.. More details can be found here:
\nhttps:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Changes\/UseKmsconVTConsole<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, to run a graphical interface (KDE\/Plasma in my case) with X11 I am supposed to use:<\/p>\n

# kmscon-launch-gui startx<\/strong><\/p>\n

– I found that this still did not work, but this may have been due to pre-release issues…<\/p>\n

I was<\/span> able to use that command to run plasma\/wayland successfully:<\/p>\n

# kmscon-launch-gui startplasma<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had kept with X11, as I found that Wayland with KDE\/PLasma was still unpredictable, but have now found that it seems to be – finally – useable, and even ‘ancient-but-still-useful’ software such as avidemux<\/strong> seems to load\/run successfully..<\/p>\n

Fedora 45 is due for release in October, and there will – of course – be many more changes to come, before then..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 August 19th 2026..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that this change has been reverted, for the time being, and good old # startx etc. works again.. On my Fedora 45 pre-release test system, with local text console, I found that my old # startx command no longer worked, and threw: \/usr\/libexec\/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server xinit: giving …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2844,10,15,19],"tags":[2842,2841,2843],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-console","category-fedora","category-linux-2","category-opinion","tag-changes-console","tag-fedora-45","tag-kmscon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}