From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 20: 3:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from realtime.net (dragon.realtime.net [205.238.128.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA59737B71B for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucegb@realtime.net) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain ([205.238.153.168]) by realtime.net ; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:00:41 -0600 Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3331g214065; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:01:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:01:42 -0500 From: Bruce Burden To: Jesse Gross , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow X refresh rate Message-ID: <20010402220142.A14040@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jesse_gross@yahoo.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:24:37PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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