From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 16 9:59: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A40B37B401 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rozinante mimerki@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [66.20.120.182] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NIMS SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.6 $ on Novell NetWare; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:58:58 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Marcia Barrett Nice To: "Ryan Sutton" , "Free BSD" Subject: Re: startx only works as root Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:58:42 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02051612584208.00341@Rozinante> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Redirected to -questions. On Thursday 16 May 2002 12:40 pm, Ryan Sutton wrote startx only works as root: | I can only run startx as root, when I try to run as any other user is says | not found, please help | | -Super Newbie What version of X? If you're trying to run ver. 4.x you'll have to install xwrapper. If you're trying to run ver 3.x (the default version), you'll want to cp .xinitrc & .xsession from /root into /home/yourusernamehere Marcia -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message