From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:21:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20186 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id NAA25703; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:21:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Malartre cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X startup problems In-Reply-To: <35C8B9B7.EE349E40@aei.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, there is a system wide xinitrc file located (in my case since I am using AccelX) in: % locate xinitrc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- Yan Jan Koum www.best.com/~jkb jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." "Write longer sentences - they are paying us a lot of money" On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Malartre wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message