Subject: Re: New User Woes
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 15:55:14 AKDT
hmm on my old RedHate boxen i had to edit the .xinitrc
in your user's home directory... and that was 7.2 .. in mine i had it set
up like this
~# more .xinitrc
#exec blackbox
exec gnome-session
#----eof----------
i used the comment so i didnt have to retype anything i just delete the
comment and then i used black box.. hmm dont know if this helps but
hopefully it will fix your GUI problem ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Reynolds" <jonr@destar.net>
To: "Kirk McFadden" <captkirk1767@yahoo.com>
Cc: "AKLUG" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: New User Woes
>
> 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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