Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:01:42 -0500 From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: Jesse Gross <jesse_gross@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow X refresh rate Message-ID: <20010402220142.A14040@tigerfish2.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <OHEMKELJIJBFDIKJNNMHEEDLCAAA.jesse_gross@yahoo.com>; from jesse_gross@yahoo.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:24:37PM -0400 References: <XFMail.20010401130728.conrads@home.com> <OHEMKELJIJBFDIKJNNMHEEDLCAAA.jesse_gross@yahoo.com>
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> > As I said, I could only get everything to work when I did default > configurations for everything. However, I want to use GNOME, not the default > window manager that comes with XFree86. > You need to run xdm or Xwrapper. I use xdm myself, as the man page for xdm set everything up (except for the path names, they are wrong, you need to change them). Look at the pkg-message file in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, it will tell you why startx only works as root. > > the changes only take effect for the currently logged in user. As a result, > I have GNOME for root, but not for my unprivileged user. Do you have any > suggestions? > You will need to create a .xsession file for each user, and put that file in their home directory. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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