gdmflexiserver --xnest as non-root user

Peter Ulrich Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Tue Aug 24 23:39:38 PDT 2004


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.

Uli.
>
> Joe

 	+---------------------------+
 	|    Peter Ulrich Kruppa    |
         |         Wuppertal         |
         |          Germany          |
         +---------------------------+


More information about the freebsd-gnome mailing list