On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:01:45 +0200, Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shaun ONeil wrote: > > >On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:42:36 +0200, Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>The problem is that X starts, but will not display galeon. > >> > >>Shortly told the system is put up like this: > >>added user kiosk, system configuration by /etc/inittab, > >>/home/kiosk/kiosk.sh /home/kiosk/kiosk-session > >>/home/kiosk/.xsession and in additional I have tried to solve the > >>problem by adding /home/kiosk/.xserverrc for being sure that the correct > >>X server is used. > >> > >>/etc/inittab provides automatically logging by the line > >>"k:4:respawn:/home/kiosk/kiosk.sh" > >>/home/kiosk.sh calling "exec xinit /home/kiosk/kiosk-session --$xargs > >> >/tmp/.xsession-errors2>&1" > >>/home/kiosk/kiosk-session making no prompt for password: "exec su - > >>--command /home/kiosk/.xsession kiosk" > > > >I'm no expert, but the first thing I notice here is that X is launched > >by init, so has root's permissions. If you un-comment the xsetbg > >line, does that work? I'm curious if 'kiosk' can use root's X > >display. > > > > > Thank you for your answer, and I think you found the problem. Trying to > xinit as user gives message that user is not authorized to run the X > server. Surprisingly, as this was never a problem in redhat. Is there a > way to give user kiosk the authorization for using X server? > > Uncomment the line > > #/usr/bin/X11/xsetbg /home/kiosk/wallpaper.gif > > had then of course no effect. > > And for your question, /usr/bin/galeon -df, -df makes sure that galeon > starts in full screen. (in redhat it worked) >
you might like to try changing "allowed_users" to "anybody" in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config iirc the default is to allow users that are logged in on a local tty .. I found changing mine to read 'anybody' would allow me to start X from within screen (where you're assigned a /dev/pts/*, not a /dev/tty*) .. a similar situation where the user is local but doesn't appear logged in. I'm not sureif that's a good solution long-term .. it'd depend who has how much access to the machines. (I know this should be done with dpkg-reconfigure, I just can't remember which package you'd want to be reconfigure'n .. appologies for demonstrating 'all the wrong ways') HTH, Shaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
