From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 0:20:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8978F37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D15728EB2; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 03:20:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 03:20:41 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: mpd Cc: Jeff Jeter , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can't startx as non-root [Vanilla Ice is a wrapper] In-Reply-To: <20020324004327.A77513@rochester.rr.com> Message-ID: <20020324031238.Y29083-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, mpd wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:35:05PM -0500, Jeff Jeter wrote: > > i ran xinit and x started, but when i ran startx it gave me the same error > Install the wrapper port. > mike I am typing in circles here *(ack)* ... after striking out at www.xfree86.org and with `pkg_add -r wrapper` and striking out harder at `cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper/ ; make` (no output), I finally found wrapper by querying www.freebsd.org and "Ported Apps" and read up some on its Description (mildly useful write-up). Can someone -=please=- discuss the relative pros and cons of wrapper vs xdm (as called from /etc/ttys) vs startx vs the XFree86 binary itself vs ~/.xinitrc vs ~/.xsession vs `exec gnome-session` vs `exec kde-session` vs committing oneself to a life of command-line-only especially after the discovery that w3m kicks the pants *and* panties off lynx vs [LASTLY] committing oneself to the nearest local institution for the mental defective? (Please?) Thanks, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 P.S. If you haven't heard the MP3 of "Strangers On My Flight" from the Howard Stern show, you gotta git it! ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message