From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 13:06:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17019 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17014 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@aeiusrI-31.aei.ca [206.186.205.181]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01242; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:05:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35C8B9B7.EE349E40@aei.ca> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 15:59:51 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Forrest Aldrich CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X startup problems References: <199808051909.PAA09541@spook.navinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > This has been an outstanding mystery... X windows will not start up if the > user is not root. I've checked, removed, and altered my .xinitrc, to no > avail. What gives with this? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I think you have to edit .profile and add a PATH who point to the directory of X11R6 or something like that, not sure, test! Sorry, but that's all I remember since I dont use X. Maybe it can help -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message