From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 17: 1: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D657537BED9 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bkwalters@lucent.com) Received: from kagan.quedawg.com ([24.8.210.114]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000401010059.JCYI28012.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@kagan.quedawg.com> for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:00:59 -0800 Received: (from psiphi@localhost) by kagan.quedawg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA07943 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:46:06 GMT Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:46:06 +0000 From: "Brian K . Walters" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 - A Few Questions Message-ID: <20000331204606.A7929@kagan.quedawg.com> References: <20000331164749.A7198@kagan.quedawg.com> <38E51BB3.2B3A955D@eboa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38E51BB3.2B3A955D@eboa.com>; from roelof@eboa.com on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:42:11PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux Organization: Lucent Netcare Professional Services X-Disclaimer: Lucent NPS - The Knowledge Behind The Network Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:42:11PM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote: > "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 Maybe I didn't mention that in the previous email. I was using startx to try and bring up X as a regular user and that was the response I was getting. -- Brian K. Walters bkwalters@lucent.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message