From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 8:38:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F01B14FF9 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 125Wx2-000JNS-00; Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:36:52 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:06:51 GMT." Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:36:51 +0200 Message-ID: <74489.947003811@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:06:51 GMT, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I just had something very strange happen. I was trying to set up > color xterm defaults in my toor account. All my X accounts run > WindowMaker. In the password file, my home account is toor, but in > the profile scripts, it is root. When i changed them to 'toor' and > copied my .xinitrc file, when i started X, TWM came up. I think you're confused. Both root and toor are two different usernames for the same UID. The only difference for the two should be the login shell -- you will get weird and unexpected behaviour if you give the two different home directories. Sounds to me like you're doing too much as root. Time to create a user account. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message