Seperate XFree init scripts?

Icebreaker · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Howdy, all. Just installed Gentoo a week ago, rather new to this whole linux thing, but the installation handbook was easy enough to follow and I've currently got a perfectly functioning Fluxbox desktop.

My problem is that people keep telling me it's bad to just hang out in your root account all day, but when I log in with my regular user, I get that ugly TVM window manager. How would I change it so that typing 'startx' would start Fluxbox as opposed to TVM?

Keep in mind that I use /root/.xinitrc to start things up when Flux starts, like gdesklets, eterm, etc. I need my regular user to use the exact same file when I type "startx" under that name. And yes, I know that this is documented somewhere, or else there's a forum post I'd have to sift through, but if you'd tell me it could save me a goodly amount of time... :wink:

Thanks for your time.

tomthewombat · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject:

copy the same .xinitrc from root's folder into the users home directory.
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Icebreaker · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Ah, should've mentioned I had tried that already. When I use "startx" from there, I get the following error:

Permission denied (errno 13): No such program (/home/icebreaker/.xinitrc) found in PATH

Or something like that, I didn't write the exact message down. But I guess I'd have to make the copied .xinitrc accessible to all users... problem being I'm not sure how.

iamlarryboy · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

nano -w ~/.xinitrc

just type the path to the executable you want started after you startx

mine is:

/usr/kde/cvs/bin/startkde

tomthewombat · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

it seems that when you copied it the file didn't get the right access permissions for your user. deleting the old file and creating a new file under that user name then adding the commands in manually should work.
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Icebreaker · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Well, I've figured out the glorious chmod command... with the arguments in octal, no less. :wink:

But funny things happen when I operate as my non-root user. If I try and set the backround in my Flux desktop using fbsetbg, it gives me some weird X11 lib errors.

So, despite all the warnings, I'll just chill in my root account for my web browsing, etc. I never was very security conscious anyway... :roll:

tomthewombat · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject:

what sort of errors??
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Neech · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject:

To make working as user bearable go in your

/etc/pam.d/su file and uncommend this line :