Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X startup problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806132006.20757D-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <35C8B9B7.EE349E40@aei.ca>
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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
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