Problem starting X as user

[herbert langhans]

Maybe rename /home/frank/.xinitrc to /home/frank/.xinit.rc.backup

Then copy /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to /home/frank and rename xinitrc to .xinitrc (and chown it to frank while youre at it).

As you have it now and you start as root it currently uses /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. When you start as user it might use /home/frank/.xinitrc. 

Working?
herbs


On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:25:50 +0200
Frank Wißmann <frank.wissmann41 at web.de> wrote:

> herbert langhans wrote:
> > Also check if you have the /etc/x11/xorg.conf -- root 644. Dont keep another xorg.conf in the /home/user directory so its using the one from /etc/x11 for sure. 
> > 
> > Dont have 
> > ~/.Xresources and
> > ~/.Xmodmap 
> > in the home directory. 
> 
> I must admit I have some xmodmap-commands in my .xinitrc. They worked 
> fine in my 7.0-Beta1 installation. I now have upgraded to 7.0. X.org is 
> 7.3_1. I copied my ~/frank from one computer to another via NFS. May it 
> be there went something wrong? (See below)
> > 
> > Check .xinitrc if it is in /root. If it is there and it works copy it over to the /home/user, care for permissions or make it 777.
> 
> I have only one in ~/frank.
> 
> > 
> > Watch for /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit -- it will use this when you have no .xinitrc in the /home/user or permission is set wrong!
> 
> The file /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is set to r--r--r--. It seems 
> to me this is somehow wrong. Should I change it, and to which value?
> 
> > 
> > Such troubles I solve best when I look over it the next day. Usually I find it in two minutes then and wonder how I can have not seen such an obvious mistake.. 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > herbs
> >  
> > 
> > On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:38:04 +0200
> > Frank Wißmann <frank.wissmann41 at web.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> herbert langhans wrote:
> >>> Frank,
> >>> can you start twm when you log in as a user. It smells like some permission issue from xfce. You could backup the xfce files with the actual permissions and then set them all to 777 and try to start it.
> >>>
> >>> Just an idea
> >>> herbs
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:03:40 +0200
> >>> Frank Wißmann <frank.wissmann41 at web.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi all!
> >>>> Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem:
> >>>> When I type "startx" as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server 
> >>>> and twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same 
> >>>> there is only a grey screen with a mouse-cursor coming up and doing 
> >>>> nothing until I kill the X-Server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. On the 
> >>>> original screen from which I tried to start is shown the following error 
> >>>> message:
> >>>>
> >>>> AUDIT: Thu Apr 3 20:34:48 2008 836 X: client 1 rejected from localhost 
> >>>> (uid 1001)
> >>>> Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> >>>> Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server
> >>>> Xlib: Protocol not supported by server
> >>>>
> >>>> .xinitrc and .xsession both have the same contens "exec startxfce4" and 
> >>>> the permissions "rwxr-xr-x".
> >>>>
> >>>> Any thoughts please?
> >>>>
> >>>> TIA Frank
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> >>>
> >> If I comment out the "exec startxfce4" in both files the effect is the 
> >> same: No WM starts, just the X-Server. The interesting effect is that 
> >> the output on the regular user's terminal is the same as above written. 
> >> So it seems it has nothing to do with the WM I want to start.
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
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