gdmflexiserver --xnest as non-root user

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Aug 24 23:41:19 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 02:40, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 02:17, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Can I run
> >> # gdmflexiserver --xnest
> >> (nested login window) as non-root user? I always receive a
> >> message to restart gdm.
> >
> > Works for me.  Make sure you have the XNest server installed (either
> > xorg-nestserver or XFree86-4-NestServer).
> I have xorg-nestserver installed, all-right.
> The problem is, I can only use it as root, not as "normal" user.
> 
> I wonder if some kind of permission has to be set somewhere.

Works as a normal user for me with xorg-nestserver installed with a
default gdm.conf.

Joe

> 
> Uli.
> >
> > Joe
> 
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