From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 5:52:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c004.sfo.cp.net (c004-h007.c004.sfo.cp.net [209.228.14.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E6A037B4CF for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 05:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 15843 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2000 05:52:35 -0800 Received: from kaging218.august.net (HELO kaginginc.com) (64.90.32.218) by smtp.namezero.com (209.228.14.63) with SMTP; 10 Nov 2000 05:52:35 -0800 X-Sent: 10 Nov 2000 13:52:35 GMT Message-ID: <3A0BFD00.27695EBF@kaginginc.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:49:53 -0600 From: Kevin Greenidge X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: KDE for regular users References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks...... Adding an .xinitrc file and then typing {exec startkde} worked. p.s. For future reference I installed KDE via the /stand/sysinstall command. Tim McMillen wrote: > I'm guessing that if you installed KDE in the normal way, you won't have > to mess with permissions. Try editing the .xinitrc file to have only the > line: > startkde > > or create the file like that. Then when the user types startx it will > start kde by default. > If you'd rather leave fvwm as default, you can just type startkde > to get into kde, leave the .xinitrc file alone and type startx to get > fvwm. > If you've already tried this let us know. > > Tim > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Kevin Greenidge wrote: > > > I installed KDE and fwvm on my FreeBSD 4.1.1 but only root can get into > > KDE while my other users only get the default window manager and desktop > > that isn't very nice to look at. Is there some kind of privileges I have > > to enable somewhere? > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE personal .com domain name and > NAMEzero Personal Portal at: http://www.namezero.com. > For customer service, mailto:customerservice@namezero.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message