Re: Cannot run X as non-root user

To: Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ucc.ie@localhost>
Subject: Re: Cannot run X as non-root user
From: David Brownlee <abs%mono.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:22:27 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Lars Hecking wrote:

>  xdm works, sort of. If I log in as root and start xdm, I can log in as
>  a user. But I only get the standard twm setup, ~/.xinitrc is totally
>  ignored. The only way to run wmaker is to manually kill twm and start
>  wmaker ...

        .xinit is a startx convention, xdm uses .xsession (ensure it is
        executable!)
        For more details see 'man xdm' :)

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- Re: Cannot run X as non-root user
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