Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:36:51 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <74489.947003811@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:06:51 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001041604050.48854-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:06:51 GMT, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I just had something very strange happen. I was trying to set up > color xterm defaults in my toor account. All my X accounts run > WindowMaker. In the password file, my home account is toor, but in > the profile scripts, it is root. When i changed them to 'toor' and > copied my .xinitrc file, when i started X, TWM came up. I think you're confused. Both root and toor are two different usernames for the same UID. The only difference for the two should be the login shell -- you will get weird and unexpected behaviour if you give the two different home directories. Sounds to me like you're doing too much as root. Time to create a user account. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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