Re: startx as a normal user
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Gianfranco Berardi wrote:
> On my laptop I made sure that runlevel 2 doesn't start up X and fluxbox.
>
> So now when I want to, I type
>
> $ startx
>
> and I get a message about setting a nice value to 0 instead of -10 as
> requested. Then fluxbox shortly shows up.
>
> I don't think that I notice any problems in terms of performance.
> Should I be running it at a nice value of -10?
>
> I guess I just ask because while I can run it at 0 and I have, I just
> want to know what is considered correct or proper.
>
> I would assume there would be a performance boost, if anything, with a
> nice level of -10. Other than that, I don't know if it is considered
> "wrong" to simply startx as a user.
>
> Thanks,
> Gianfranco
It nice value doesn't matter (at least for me, I think it is not that
important). To check why X does not start properly have a look at the logs
(/var/log/XFree*) and your .xinitrc .
Burkhard
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