Am using a second box to learn about Debian Slink which I've used for some months now on my main box.
I've never fully understood permissions/ownership/groups etc and so have been experimenting by creating, deleting and so on. At one stage I found my users were both in root group, but was able (easily I thought) to correct this position. Now I find a problem with xconsole which I can't solve and yet don't see how it can be related to what I've been doing. KDE is installed and seems to behave as before except that on booting xconsole screen appears with no contents and a new screen starts each time - I now have 8, one on top of the other. Whilst these can be minimized or maximized, they cannot be closed from the 'x' button nor the menu. I am unable to find out exactly what xconsole is, how it works and where the configuration details are. I've looked at the man pages, at /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole, and /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XConsole, but am too inexperienced to make any sense of things. My boxes standalone and I'm the only user so generally work as root even when dialling out with the modem. Security is not a concern, but I shall soon employ a user account (hence the experimenting). Can anyone kindly assist - now that I'm comfortable using Debian, understanding why and how is becoming important to me. John.
