Re: can not start X as non-root user

[Kent West]

[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:

Kent West wrote:

[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:

i just set up a new woody-box with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4*.
gdm runs fine and i can login there or running startx X as root. 
however, if i try to log in through gdm or running startx as a 
normal user, i can not run X and fall back to gdm or to the console 


Try running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common", and when asked who has 
permission to run X, select Console Users (or something similar to 
that).

Alternatively, edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config so the following line 
reads thusly:

allowed_users=console

thanks for your help, didn't even know about that type of 
access-control. however, this did not work for me.

what i did so far:
- checked the permission of the users homedirs/dotfiles (ok)
- added a new (non-root) user with an empty home-directory (no X)
- set Xwrappers access to console-users
any idea what's going wrong?




Check the output of "startx 2> error.log" for hints.

I suspect you don't have a default wm configured properly for non-root 
users. Create a ".xinitrc" file in a normal user's home dir with the 
single line "icewm" (and make sure icewm is installed) and give it a go 
and let us know the results.

--
Kent


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