From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 11 22:08:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9796216A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:08:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6930243D48 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:08:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EC455AE0 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:08:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E6016A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:08:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B08F43D4C for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:08:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97AD41F446D for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:07:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (caduceus.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58828-09 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:07:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org (ool-44c47f78.dyn.optonline.net [68.196.127.120]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B361F446C for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:07:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40CA2D27.7090000@wingfoot.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:07:35 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@lists.freebsd.org References: <00c601c44ff3$c96c1f10$0200a8c0@LLAPTOP> <200406112239.57438.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200406112239.57438.dgw@liwest.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:19:00 +0000 Subject: Re: XFree86 Config (continued) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:08:30 -0000 Daniela said the following on 6/11/2004 6:39 PM: >On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote: > > >>OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close. >>I have a config file that works fine....only as long as I am signed in as >>root. >>KDE-Lite loads and works fine... >>However >>If I sign in as a user, I get a grey-green screen with some white windows. >>I put the config file in etc/X11/XF86Config. >>There maybe other copies somewhere, but I think I got most of them. >>Do I have the config file in the right place? >> >> > >Copy the file '.xinitrc' from root's home directory to the respective user's >home directory. >This is because every user can have his own desktop, so every user will have >to specify one in order not to get the default one. It's also possible to set >a system-wide default, but I've never done this. > > Ack.. I knew it was .xsomething ;) G.