From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 23:30:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8569C37B400; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16R70A-0001jj-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:30:22 +0100 Received: from [62.227.92.142] (helo=asg) by mrvdom00.kundenserver.de with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16R709-0006Ux-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:30:21 +0100 Message-ID: <01b501c19f28$6a17afd0$8e5ce33e@asg> Reply-To: "A. Gruner" From: "A. Gruner" To: , Cc: , References: Subject: Re: x windows fatal server error when not root. Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:27:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. > When I am root I can run x windows fine but when I am not root I get the following > error. How could I go about fixing this ? Ok, first answer, look at the FAQ --> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-ROOT Second one --> There are 3 ways 1. The best --> install Xwrapper from the ports 2. Install kdm, gdm, xdm depends on what kind of X you are using (graphical login, no more "startx") 2. Set setuid bit to Xfree86 (bad, bad boy) hth Axel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message