Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)
On Sunday 23 March 2003 17:56, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Is this so? If I type 'startx' as me (non-root) then X won't start
> > unless I go change some permissions? (presumably, having opened a
> > console window from the X login and gone su root to do so)
>
> If you're saying you can't start an X session as a nonprivileged user
> from a terminal within an X session: this is as it should be.
I think I was being a bit confused and confusing, for which my apologies, the
bit in brackets was a half-thought-out afterthought. My reference to su
root was in connection with changing permissions. I imagine I would also
have to do the same in order to change the login to Linux command-line rather
than starting in X. I don't know whether this is considered bad practice
but my experience with X display managers (both in RH *and* my sole Debian
attempt) is that Linux *always* works and X frequently doesn't without much
tweaking, hence my liking for the command line.
> The control for this is /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. The usual values are
> 'root', 'console', or 'anybody'. This file is part of the
> xserver-common package, and can be configured with:
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
>
> > (I ask this because RedHat which I'm currently using does allow it by
> > default.
>
> RH's default configs should *not* be referred to as best practice.
I wasn't, just as what I'm used to.
> > And I'm a *very* newbie since I just tried installing Debian,
> > failed to quite get it working, and am back in RH while I plan my next
> > attempt).
>
> No problems. You've heard of chroot installs? You *can* have it both
> ways:
>
> http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall
Thanks. Actually the install was not the problem. Getting X to start was
- solved that - and then getting kppp to work - and then to communicate with
Kmail and browsers - was.
Chris
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