Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:10:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: scott@smnolde.com Cc: Eric Kozowski <eric@routergeeks.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another xfree86 question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010711000607.13995B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20010710163804.L63641-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 scott.nolde@mediaone.net wrote:
What is the advantage to this of just running xdm from /etc/ttys or from a
/usr/local/etc/rc.d script??
> If you've got XFree86 running as root, then you need to allow your
> non-root users.
>
> I've installed Xwrapper (/usr/ports/x11/wrapper ?) and use a script
> ~{HOME}/.xserverrc:
> #!/bin/sh
> Xdepth="-bpp 16"
>
> if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper ] ; then
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper -auth $HOME/.Xauthority ${Xdepth}
> else
> exec X -auth $HOME/.Xauthority ${Xdepth}
> fi
>
> It'll give you a warning, but this will let non-root users to run X using
> startx.
>
> - Scott
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Eric Kozowski wrote:
>
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