Date: 27 Jul 2002 15:36:31 +0100 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> To: Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com> Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed Message-ID: <1027780596.76796.9.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <F125OpoUyE6ZnFDenr30002671c@hotmail.com> References: <F125OpoUyE6ZnFDenr30002671c@hotmail.com>
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Hi Maxime Thanks for getting back to me. I got your message and advise about configuring Sawfish, but its really strange here. When I installed gnome, I didn't select any other window manager (as I knew that Sawfish is installed as the default window manager anyways. I was able to run the "Configure Sawfish Window Manager" tool as root after recompiling Sawfish (as per Joe Marcus Clarke's advisory), but I am not able to do so as a non-root user. I get the same "beep" noise and nothing happens. Sawfish is selected as "current" in the gnomecontrolcenter panel when I start it, so its already running! If there is any log / or config files that would assist you, do ask and I'll get that off to you. Thanks again for the reply. Stacey On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 14:23, Maxime Romano wrote: > >From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> > >To: Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com> > >CC: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com>, <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> > >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re:= =20 > >Newly installed > >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:39:35 +0100 > > > >Hi Maxime, > > That's worked for! > > > >However, I'm back to my original problem: > > > >"Sawfish not running", when trying to configure Sawfish as ordinary user= . >=20 > Sawfish must be running *before* you can configure it. >=20 > > > >Running "sawfish" at cli returns: "You can only run one window manager" > You have to kill your current window manager, and start sawfish quickly, = or=20 > else the old window manager might kick in and try to take over again. >=20 > Try something like "killall metacity;killall enlightenment;killall=20 > sawfish;killall twm;sawfish 1&- 2&- 3&- &" That oughta fix everthing up. >=20 > -Maxime Romano >=20 > > > >Stacey > > > >Quoting Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>: > > > > > No, no! To use startx, your X server must be SUID root! Do to that, > > > just > > > chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 as root and you're set. > > > > > > (Oh, and try to set the permissions on XFree86.0.log to what they wer= e. > > > > > > Something might break.) > > > > > > -Maxime Romano > > > > > > >From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> > > > >To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> > > > >CC: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>,FreeBSD User Questions > > > List > > > ><freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,<freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS > > > [Re: > > > >Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x =3D Broken Sawfish] > > > >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100 > > > > > > > > > > > >Hi Robert, > > > > I did as you suggested, but that only gives me a new error: > > > > > > > >Fatal server error: > > > >xf86OpenConsole: server must be suid root > > > > > > > >Silly question, how do I get the permissions to revert back to what > > > they > > > >were: > > > > > > > >"rw r r root wheel" > > > > > > > >???? > > > > > > > >Stacey > > > > > > > >Quoting robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Joe, > > > > > > I recompiled Sawfish, but now startx only works > > > > > > for root. > > > > > > > > > > > > For each user, there already exists the .xinitrc > > > > > > file > > > > > > with: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session being the only > > > > > > line in there. > > > > > > > > > > > > The error I get is: > > > > > > Fatal Server Error: > > > > > > Cannnot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > > > > > > > > > > Please help me with this. > > > > > > > > > > > > Stacey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Check the ownership of /var/log/Free86.0.log > > > > > ls /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > > > it should be something like rwx_w__w_ > > > > > do chmod a+w /var/log//XFree86.0.log > > > > > I hope. > > > > > > > > > > Robert Backhaus > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > > > > > http://health.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Join the world=92s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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