Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:10:22 +, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:34, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:37 -0600, tripolar wrote: >> >> > Thanks a million >> > both gnome & kde work now as regular user >> > Paul Morgan wrote: >> > >> >>/tmp should be owned by root

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:34, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:37 -0600, tripolar wrote: > > > Thanks a million > > both gnome & kde work now as regular user > > Paul Morgan wrote: > > > >>/tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: > >> > >>drwxrwxrwx9 root root

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:07:37 -0600, tripolar wrote: > Thanks a million > both gnome & kde work now as regular user > Paul Morgan wrote: > >>/tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: >> >>drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:14 /tmp >> >>as root, do >>chown root:root /tmp

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
Thanks a million both gnome & kde work now as regular user Paul Morgan wrote: /tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:14 /tmp as root, do chown root:root /tmp chmod 777 /tmp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
orgot and I am not on that machine because x only works for root and I > have yet to figure out mutt ;-) ) > I have messed with permissions in /tmp > what user & group should /tmp be? > at this time the only twm for regular users though I cant open any apps > like kmail or evolu

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
p -u /var/ run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 suley + WM=kde3 + cp /dev/null /home/suley/.kde3-errors + chmod 600 /home/suley/.kde3-errors + exec tripolar wrote: I have had problems with permissions in /usr/X11R6 I set them #chmod 755 -R /usr/X11R6/ does that look

x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
I have had problems with permissions in /usr/X11R6 I set them #chmod 755 -R /usr/X11R6/ does that look right? that has worked in the past. I was told to remove files in /tmp relating to dcop or orbit ( sorry I forgot and I am not on that machine because x only works for root and I have yet to