From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 6:39:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from istar.ca (d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net [24.141.119.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5790C37B719 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 06:39:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: (from genisis@localhost) by istar.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2PEgVv68149; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:42:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from genisis) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:42:31 -0500 (EST) From: Dru To: Luke Kearney Cc: Free BSD Subject: Re: Default Desktops In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Luke, Simply copy root's .xinitrc file to your user's home directory like so: cp /root/.xinitrc ~username/ You'll have to be root to do the copy operation. If you want every user you create to get this file, also copy it to /usr/share/skel Cheers, Dru On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Luke Kearney wrote: > Hi There, > I am having a little trouble changing my default desktop. When I run X as > root ( I know I should not do this ) I get Gnome as the manager - perfect . > When I run X as myself I end up with Xterm which is not exactly what I > wanted. Does anybody know how to change the default desktop for a user ? Any > hints/advice much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Luke K > > > > =================================================== > > Unix IS user friendly it's just particular about who its friends ARE > > ================================================== > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message