From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 13:46:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay3.adelphia.net (smtprelay3.adelphia.net [64.8.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF28B37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay3.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGDOE700.SF5 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:46:55 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6CKivW40212 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:44:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:44:57 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using xconsole with startx Message-ID: <20010712164457.A39967@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a way to get the xconsole command to work for normal users with startx? As a normal user, when I execute the command xconsole I get the error message couldn't open console The permissions for /dev/ttyv0 are crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 0 Jul 11 08:49 ttyv0 and /etc/fbtab has this #/dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console Is there a way to use the xauth command to add the ability to a read the console, but not write to it? Would it be wise to uncomment the line in /etc/fbtab and make the permissions more lenient? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message