Re: Xwindows

["Beverley Eyre" <fbe2@ucla.edu>]

Greg, 

thanks so much. Can anyone help me out further? How do I add
a user to the XWindows group? This sounds alien.

TIA,

Bev




> I've been out of it for a while and am having my own X problems tonight. LOL
> 
> However, I'd guess that you haven't added the users to the XWindows group or
> whatever the group name is...  This has been Debians longstanding way of
> granting rights.  Hopefully, someone a little more current will come along
> and answer us both.
> 
> L8r -- Greg.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Beverley Eyre <fbe2@ucla.edu>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 6:30 PM
> Subject: Xwindows
> 
> 
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm new to Debian. I installed debian using one of the preselected
> packages, one
> > which, to my dismay, didn't include Xwindows. I then installed Xwindows
> using
> > dselect, which seemed to work OK. As root, I can run Xwindows no sweat.
> But as
> > any other user, I get the following message:
> >
> > X: you are not authorized to run the X server.
> > X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111
> > Giving up.
> > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> > xinit: No such process (errno 3) Server error
> >
> > This seems like the permissions aren't correct, but when I check, it seems
> like
> > they are. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Bev
> >
> >
> >
> >
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