Thanks! This is works great! Chris
On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:03 AM, TeXitoi wrote: > C R McClenaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone. >> Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a >> display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid <name|uid> option >> to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - "X: user not >> authorized to run the X server, aborting". If I login using a usb >> keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem. > > to start X without owning the console, see /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > >> Thoughts? > > Personnally, on debian, I use that in /etc/inittab : > > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin 38400 tty2 > > and autologin : > #!/bin/sh > exec su -l user -c startx -- vt4 > > Thanks to getty in inittab, the console is owned by the launcher, and > /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config do not nead to be touched. > > to customise your xsession, just customise .xsession. > > -- > Guillaume Pinot http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/ > ~pinot/ > > ``Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading > your > mind.'' -- Donald E. Knuth, the TeXbook > > () ASCII ribbon campaign -- Against HTML e-mail > /\ http://www.asciiribbon.org -- Against proprietary attachments > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
