| Stephen Gran on 3 Oct 2004 22:14:03 -0000 |
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 09:06:30AM -0400, Art Alexion said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > >Debian has an Xsession.options file that has (surprise) options for the > >Xsession, and it contains things like: > >allow-user-resources > >allow-user-xsession > >This or the redhat equivalent would be the place for the first problem. > > > >for just this kind of thing. There is also an Xwrapper.config that > >contains > >allowed_users=console > >to grant priviledges to local users. Another valid option is root-only, > >so this might be the solution to the second problem. > > > >I am betting it is one of these things screwing you up, although I don't > >know where Redhat puts the equivalent. grep -ri allow /etc/X11 (probably > >as root, since Xwrapper.config is not world readable here) will get you > >to which file to poke at. > > > >Good luck with it. > > > Thanks, Stephen. Does it help with the diagnosis that this has never > been a problem until the kernel and X were recently updated? Yes. The upgrade probably changed an X config file out from under you. Try looking around in /etc/X11, and look closely at the diff's if there are any files with a .rpm-old copies lying around. > KDE & Window Maker were installed with the distro (updated, but > originally included) whereas I installed fluxbox from a .tar.gz. I > edited /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession to include fluxbox by just mimicking the > lines for the other window managers. Would it help if I showed you > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession? I don't think that's the problem, although I'm happy to look if you want to show me :) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | They are relatively good but absolutely | | steve@lobefin.net | terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Apollos | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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