XFree86 Config (continued)

Daniela dgw at liwest.at
Fri Jun 11 14:47:12 PDT 2004


On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote:
> OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close.
> I have a config file that works fine....only as long as I am signed in as
> root.
> KDE-Lite loads and works fine...
> However
> If I sign in as a user, I get a grey-green screen with some white windows.
> I put the config file in etc/X11/XF86Config.
> There maybe other copies somewhere, but I think I got most of them.
> Do I have the config file in the right place?

Copy the file '.xinitrc' from root's home directory to the respective user's 
home directory.
This is because every user can have his own desktop, so every user will have 
to specify one in order not to get the default one. It's also possible to set 
a system-wide default, but I've never done this.

Daniela




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