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TornSoul · 11-24-2006, 05:36 PM

I've been trying to run X as a normal user instead of root.

I've created a user with:

adduser -G users,wheel,games -s /bin/bash username

then setting a password with passwd.

But whenever I login with that user and use startx, the XFree86 server loads and controls the video and mouse, but nothing executes. I can't get it to run either GNOME or KDE. I've set the DESKTOP environment variable to "GNOME" and tried entering it into /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but I still can't get it to work.

Any ideas?

**cyanide** · 11-24-2006, 09:03 PM

I think you need to add the user to the X group..

TornSoul · 11-25-2006, 06:24 AM

There isn't an X group, that was the first thing I checked for. Don't tell me everyone's been running X as root. That's like a cardinal rule of Linux.

**Zafle** · 11-26-2006, 07:22 PM

I was about to say what TornSoul said. why would anyone run X as root, wow i'm glad ps3 has dumped a fresh wave of n00bs into linux, let the phishing attacks begin.

u should be able to do all the user stuff via gnome.
did you edit gdm.conf so that the other user has a desktop environment?

11-24-2006, 05:36 PM	#1
TornSoul Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Trader Feedback: 0	Running X as a normal user... I've been trying to run X as a normal user instead of root. I've created a user with: adduser -G users,wheel,games -s /bin/bash username then setting a password with passwd. But whenever I login with that user and use startx, the XFree86 server loads and controls the video and mouse, but nothing executes. I can't get it to run either GNOME or KDE. I've set the DESKTOP environment variable to "GNOME" and tried entering it into /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but I still can't get it to work. Any ideas?

11-24-2006, 09:03 PM	#2
cyanide Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: meh Posts: 2,799 Trader Feedback: 0	I think you need to add the user to the X group..

11-25-2006, 06:24 AM	#3
TornSoul Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Trader Feedback: 0	There isn't an X group, that was the first thing I checked for. Don't tell me everyone's been running X as root. That's like a cardinal rule of Linux.

11-26-2006, 07:22 PM	#4
Zafle Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 77 Trader Feedback: 0	I was about to say what TornSoul said. why would anyone run X as root, wow i'm glad ps3 has dumped a fresh wave of n00bs into linux, let the phishing attacks begin. u should be able to do all the user stuff via gnome. did you edit gdm.conf so that the other user has a desktop environment?

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