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X.org without display manager on minimal Ubuntu Xenial / Debian Stretch installations
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Without a display manager, you may get Cannot open log file "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" when attempting to startx as a regular user.

One solution I have found is this

usermod james -a -G video
chgrp -v video /usr/bin/Xorg
chmod -v 4754 /usr/bin/Xorg
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