Subject: Re: New User Woes
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 14:52:22 AKDT
Hi Kirk, I believe what you are looking for is the .Xclients-default
file in your users /home directory. This is how the file permissions
look when doing and 'ls -al' command:
-rwxr-xr-x ~blah,blah,blah~ .Xclients-default
When I do a more command on the file to look at it this is what is
shown:
exec startkde
So I think you could just open up an vi editor or your favorite editor
and create this file then save it with the appropriate permissions. If I
am wrong the list will surely catch it. ;)
Hope it helps,
Jon
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 14:06, Kirk McFadden wrote:
>
> Bizarre deal. I was being root all the time and after
> going out on xpilot found that my name was "root" so I
> figured I'd better create a new user account so I
> wouldn't be global all the time and so I could start
> logging in as a lowly user instead of root.
>
> I found the user manager in KDE and created a new user
> and password, then backed out to the command prompt
> and logged in as the new user, but on startx I can
> only start to Gnome (I want KDE because I already have
> it configed the way I want) and the desktop switcher
> is unavailable. So I backed out again to login as root
> and whaddaya know? I can't login as root. It won't
> take my password. The only way I can get back to it is
> shutdown and boot back to the login prompt; then the
> system will honor my orginal password (as root). I
> still can't get to KDE with the lowly user password.
>
> What am I missing here? I'm running 7.2 RedHat on a
> Toshiba laptop kernel is 2.4.7-10........digging
> through the man and info pages hasn't turned up
> much....thanx in advance....captkrk
>
>
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