Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:49:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Whee Kim <philuint@erols.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about X window Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980529081642.315B-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <356E49C1.E6224D38@erols.com>
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On Fri, 29 May 1998, Whee Kim wrote:
=> Hi, I need help.
=>
=> After I installed 2.2.6, I can't run X as regular user. I did
=> installed x distribution and I can run X when I directly log in as root,
=> but I can't run it if I am a regular user. What is wrong? How do I fix
=> this?
Can I assume you are talking about XFree86-3.3.2?
Had the same difficulty when I upgraded. Although it was in my path and
my login config was xuser it would warn me about running the xserver as
anything but GID 0.
I think you have one of two options.
1. Run "xdm" from startup and by adding
ttyv3 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
to your /etc/ttys. That's where I stop, because I could not
find the proper way to set up my user environment using X
that way.
2. Install the XFree86 source, tcl-7.6, tk-4.2, read the
documentation in installing X with "make World". If you
change "#define InstallXserverSetUID YES" to
"#define InstallXserverSetUID NO" in
/usr/X11R6/src/config/cf/site.def then it allows users
to startx.
Hope this helps,
Kevin G. Eliuk.
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