From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 06:37:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A6C106566B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:37:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9AFF8FC17 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so7958910fxm.13 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:37:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=C9CnCNTG7sAsLGkkZyDgUW9SUNzY7UGt+1dU9S4WkY8=; b=IK5fVg+sbV823gCPeYEnF+/T0CUrVDfHU0r3MPKFUglVPlw/P/GSmuqy68l0SMdb/s d8hTc/CajHL3BzhMTl9t7QwcmgJWaaFYLudjO3G090lGpDnfHo1vZyBuqkr3W0MOIFee B0DW5U7KXMfvvm5xaA5XWbqNCR8jT2L3en3JY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=uwkDUwRa57QiSUzyHAxRkNh9hjkNhCMUTn6MIcD0jNqoVWZtrSgCIva+sP2//BLjzJ i9E4pKqa2WnnEd2ZvRXltHMeTAwMzIaHEpxHy9pqv9n0hGeLkW0hRgTnHRs+pBsk0/EL 8De/fkaW86LFcnfoAvaZWnQUxIldN2zpBNSYE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.85.204 with SMTP id p12mr8329619fal.146.1296628658809; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:37:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.114.4 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:37:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 00:37:38 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Rem P Roberti Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Armin Pirkovitsch , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:37:40 -0000 On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound > really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the > environment variables are found. You should be doing this step as your normal user, not root if that is what you are doing. Otherwise whatever you run from X with start as root. If you see a '#' at the end of your prompt, it's a root prompt. You may find it easier to follow the handbook's guide on desktop environments using the auto startup methods. Some of the DE prevent you from logging in as root so you wouldn't have been able to run into this issue. If you do plan on using this as a desktop system, a desktop environment can make things easier anyway. You can always drop down to a console if needed but most of the time it's a lot more convient to use the DE's terminal or konsole or whatever. -- Adam Vande More