Re: Woody: Can't start X as regular user
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +0000, sena wrote:
> > When anyone but root tries to run 'startx', I get the following error:
> > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> > Of course, users can still use X via [xg]dm.
> Yadda, yadda...
>
> > I didn't see anything about this in the archives. Does anyone know what's
> > going on there?
> >
> That's strange.. There must have been at least 5 threads about this lately.
> Could this be due to the (referred in another thread) malfunctioning of the
> Search engine of the archives?
>
I think it's a case of not RTFMing. I'm pretty unix-stupid, but I was
able to read the docs on the xfree86 site and figure out how to fix it.
:-)
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