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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:40:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gdmflexiserver --xnest as non-root user
Message-ID:  <20040825083633.C1451@pukruppa.net>
In-Reply-To: <1093415247.1168.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20040825080117.F1451@pukruppa.net> <1093415247.1168.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 02:17, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Can I run
>> # gdmflexiserver --xnest
>> (nested login window) as non-root user? I always receive a
>> message to restart gdm.
>
> Works for me.  Make sure you have the XNest server installed (either
> xorg-nestserver or XFree86-4-NestServer).
I have xorg-nestserver installed, all-right.
The problem is, I can only use it as root, not as "normal" user.

I wonder if some kind of permission has to be set somewhere.

Uli.
>
> Joe

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 	|    Peter Ulrich Kruppa    |
         |         Wuppertal         |
         |          Germany          |
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