hi, the 2nd problem is not related to xdm but how the xserver works... by default the owner of the xserver (user who started the xserver) is the only one who can send things on the screen.
just use the command: xhost +localhost and every user logged on your pc will be allowed to start x apps. Benoit Joly On 10-Mar-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hello Debian-users, > > I am a Debian/Linux newbie. However, I do have hamm running well on > my computer now. I use Xfree 3.3.3 to make my Matrox card work and > XFCE/ with XFWM as windows manager. > > I was using startx to log in to accounts, but now I want to use > XDM. I changed to runlevel 5 and added a "1" in the xdm file there to > make XDM start my login routine. Is this the way to activate XDM? > > I have two problems: > > 1. I do not seem to have a path set in my root account. Where am I to > give the path when using XDM, and how do I set different paths for > root and other accounts? > > 2. I have xscreensaver set to run in my xsession files (infact, I > just copied what I had in my xinitrc files into my xsession files). > When I log in as root I get this error message regarding > xscreensaver: > > .xsession-errors > OddBird:~# xscreensaver > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > OddBird:~# > > This does not happen when I log in to a user account. Why is this? > > To be honest, I do find the whole concept of XDM to be hard to grasp > even after having read the documentation I have been able to find. > > TIA > > > > //Christian > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe > > > "If everything is coming your way, you are probably > in the wrong lane" > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Benoit Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10-Mar-99 Time: 14:02:16 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
