Re: X Window : Newbie

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Van Wyk Leroux, Mr  wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I'm trying to run startx from the console after I logged in as a normal user.This doesn't seem to work.I have already run XF86Config as root, and if I do startx from root, X Windows starts up fine.Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> Does a normal user use the same XF86Config file as root?
>
> Regards
> LeRoux
>
>
>  
Look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. It probably looks like:

allowed_users=rootonly
nice_value=-10

If you want anyone phyically sitting at the machine to be able to start 
X, it should look like:
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10


Kent