From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 2 13:00:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10505 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 13:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kzin.dorm.umd.edu (kzin.dorm.umd.edu [129.2.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10493 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 13:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kzin.dorm.umd.edu (kzin.dorm.umd.edu [129.2.178.33]) by kzin.dorm.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA14736; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:49:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:49:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary L. Jackson" X-Sender: garyj@kzin.dorm.umd.edu To: Elisabeth cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, root@radiant-resources.com, beth@alpha.gte.net Subject: Re: 2 X questions In-Reply-To: <33E38265.41C67EA6@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Elisabeth wrote: > Thank you for helping me get X running. I have 2 questions that seem > (hopefully) pretty simple to answer: > > 1.) How do I start more than 2 Xterm windows? The most straightforward way is to do an 'xterm&' from a shell prompt in another xterm. There are lots of other ways to do it. > 2.) How do I start Xwindows without logging in as root? You should be able to start it with /usr/X11R6/bin/startx without having to do anything special. If not, something is probably misconfigured. > An unrelated question that just came up. How do I set permission for a > administrotor (non-superuser) to su to root? Add the user to the wheel group in /etc/group. -- Gary