From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 13:41:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205FD37B996 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA26461; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:41:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <38E51BB3.2B3A955D@eboa.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:42:11 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian K . Walters" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 - A Few Questions References: <20000331164749.A7198@kagan.quedawg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian K . Walters" wrote: > > ... > Why can't I start X-Windows as a normal user? What permissions do I need > to change to get it to work? Of course I can start X as root with no > problems. Have you tried 'startx'? With xdm you start more than just X. It's that more that requires one to be root. Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Eboa (ingenieursburo Office Automation) web. http://eboa.com/ P.O. Box 55 mail info@eboa.com Weerd 24 8900 AB Leeuwarden tel. +31-582123014 the Netherlands fax. +31-582160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message