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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:10:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
To:        scott@smnolde.com
Cc:        Eric Kozowski <eric@routergeeks.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: another xfree86 question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010711000607.13995B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010710163804.L63641-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 scott.nolde@mediaone.net wrote:

What is the advantage to this of just running xdm from /etc/ttys or from a
/usr/local/etc/rc.d script?? 

> If you've got XFree86 running as root, then you need to allow your
> non-root users.
> 
> I've installed Xwrapper (/usr/ports/x11/wrapper ?) and use a script
> ~{HOME}/.xserverrc:
> #!/bin/sh
> Xdepth="-bpp 16"
> 
> if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper ] ; then
>         exec /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper -auth $HOME/.Xauthority ${Xdepth}
> else
>         exec X -auth $HOME/.Xauthority ${Xdepth}
> fi
> 
> It'll give you a warning, but this will let non-root users to run X using
> startx.
> 
> - Scott
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Eric Kozowski wrote:
> 
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