I suspect you did not configure the access to gnome or KDE Xconfigurator or XFree86 -configure should have ask you which desktop you wanted to have as default. theoretically you should have either a .Xclients (or .XClients, I am not on my box) or a .xinitrc with exec gnomesession or startkde Lionel --- Craig Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, my X is a symlink to XFree86, but I would really like to find out > why my xdm won't allow me to start x display :0.0 instead of installing > Xwrapper, mainly because it is just bugging me so much that it won't work . > > Thanks again, with some help and some tweaking I hope to get this running. > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > >>I can't seem to find an Xwrapper on my system either, is this a shell > >>script, or a binary I can download? > >> > > > >I think Xwrapper is usually a binary. it might be called different things, > >depending on your system. for instance Debian Linux just has it named > >/usr/X11R6/bin/X, rather than X just being a symlink to Xwrapper like a lot > >of other distros do it. > > > >It doesn't seem to be part of the core X distribution; X just seems to SUID > >root the XFree86 binary. (something of a security problem, that; but it does > >make things work). > > > >Carl Soderstrom > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
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