From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 8: 3:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server2.umt.edu (server2.umt.edu [150.131.14.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5A337B407 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there ([150.131.28.37]) by server2.umt.edu (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f8AF36k12213; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:03:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200109101503.f8AF36k12213@server2.umt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Peter W. Schmiedeskamp" Reply-To: peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu Organization: Mansfield Center To: "David Loszewski" , Subject: Re: stupid X windows question Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:00:41 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <005101c139a6$74cb27f0$3000a8c0@sickness> In-Reply-To: <005101c139a6$74cb27f0$3000a8c0@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Sunday 09 September 2001 09:12 pm, David Loszewski wrote: > How do I configure the X windows for a user if it's not root similar to > the /stand/sysinstall so that I can make it use KDE as it's X Windows? > > Dave If you invoke X by typing "startx" then you will have to add a file in the user's home directory called ".xinitrc" If you have configured X to start automagically with xdm then the file will be called ".xsession" Also, I believe that .xinitrc must be executable (or is that the .xsession?) -- #################################### Peter Schmiedeskamp The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center *nix administrator #################################### To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message