Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:58:42 -0400 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@myrealbox.com> To: "Ryan Sutton" <ryancsutton@hotmail.com>, "Free BSD" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: startx only works as root Message-ID: <02051612584208.00341@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <DAV24TWk7Qoh0f4OAA30000ffd6@hotmail.com> References: <DAV24TWk7Qoh0f4OAA30000ffd6@hotmail.com>
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Redirected to -questions. On Thursday 16 May 2002 12:40 pm, Ryan Sutton wrote startx only works as root: | I can only run startx as root, when I try to run as any other user is says | not found, please help | | -Super Newbie What version of X? If you're trying to run ver. 4.x you'll have to install xwrapper. If you're trying to run ver 3.x (the default version), you'll want to cp .xinitrc & .xsession from /root into /home/yourusernamehere Marcia -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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