On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Joseph Grundy wrote:
> I was able to finally get xfree86 working with my geforce 2 mx video
> card I downloaded all the files and ran the Xinstall.sh script I did
> have one issue where the keyboard file was not being installed so i
> reinstalled Freebsd 4.4rc2 and then reinstalled the new xfree86
> asking not to install that part and it works great now.
>
> But i have not been able to get into anything but the vanilla
> version of xwindows if i am not logged in as root. I can su to root
> but I want to avoid this, and get into kde while under my normal
> user mode, so i am not in super user all the time, since most of the
> time on this box i will be in xwin.
>
> any idea?
If you have KDE2 installed from the ports tree, try putting the
following into your $HOME/.xinitrc, then type startx from your console
login session:
# ---- begin .xinitrc
# Can make this stuff a lot more pretty later
FONT="-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
export FONT
xterm -font $FONT -ls -sb -bg black -fg white -geometry 80x40+4+28 \
-name "B/W" &
exec startkde
# ---- end .xinitrc
If that doesn't work, install the Xwrapper port. Xwrapper is a setuid
root binary whose only job is to launch the X server itself, so that
the X server doesn't have to be setuid root. Then, make a .xserverrc
file in your home directory that contains the line
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
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I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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