Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-25 Thread butresin
On 0926, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: > > On 11/11/18 12:59 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:42:57PM -0600, Andrew wrote: > > > Personally I use spectrwm, so I can't speak for other the wm's. In my > > > case, all I had to do was: > > > > > > $> cp .xinitrc .xsession > > >

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 09:26:32AM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: > > On 11/11/18 12:59 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:42:57PM -0600, Andrew wrote: > >>Personally I use spectrwm, so I can't speak for other the wm's. In my > >>case, all I had to do was: > >> > >>$> cp

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-11 Thread Edgar Pettijohn III
On 11/11/18 12:59 AM, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:42:57PM -0600, Andrew wrote: Personally I use spectrwm, so I can't speak for other the wm's. In my case, all I had to do was: $> cp .xinitrc .xsession $> chmod +x .xsession ... and it "just worked" as expected :-) You were

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-11 Thread Chris Bennett
Thanks! I use spectrwm too. Now I know exactly what man pages to read, which I will do first, before any copy/paste crap. I have found the sheer size of X everything to be a bit intimidating. I think this whole xenodm thing will fill in crucial gaps for me. Happier, Chris Bennett

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-10 Thread Arnoud Otten
> Startx doesn`t work anymore on my Lenovo W520. > > I had a working X setup with Mate on 6.4 stable. Then i did an upgrade to > > 6.4 current, snapshot from 5 Nov, and couldn`t start X anymore. > > > > Did a fresh install with that snapshot, and found out, root could star

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:42:57PM -0600, Andrew wrote: > Personally I use spectrwm, so I can't speak for other the wm's. In my > case, all I had to do was: > > $> cp .xinitrc .xsession > $> chmod +x .xsession > > ... and it "just worked" as expected :-) You were lucky to not have something

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-10 Thread Andrew
On 11/10/18 19:29, Chris Bennett wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:36:17PM +0100, Solene wrote: This is normal. Look at 26th October https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html The suid was removed to prevent bad things to happen. Use xenodm instead of startx. I have switched to using xenodm.

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-10 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:36:17PM +0100, Solene wrote: > This is normal. Look at 26th October https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html > > The suid was removed to prevent bad things to happen. Use xenodm instead of > startx. > I have switched to using xenodm. I am also think I screwed up

Re: X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-10 Thread Solene
king X setup with Mate on 6.4 stable. Then i did an upgrade >to 6.4 current, snapshot from 5 Nov, and couldn`t start X anymore. > >Did a fresh install with that snapshot, and found out, root could start >X. Upgrade to snapshot from 9 Nov did not resolve the problem for the >user >

X won't start with latest snapshot as user (Solution provided)

2018-11-10 Thread Arnoud Otten
Startx doesn`t work anymore on my Lenovo W520. I had a working X setup with Mate on 6.4 stable. Then i did an upgrade to 6.4 current, snapshot from 5 Nov, and couldn`t start X anymore. Did a fresh install with that snapshot, and found out, root could start X. Upgrade to snapshot from 9 Nov did

Re: X not start

2008-10-18 Thread Daniel Bareiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 17, Stijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Daniel, Hi, Stijn. Did you already tried to start X with the command startx without using any xorg.conf file (none in /root/ or /etc/X11/)? When no xorg.conf file is found X will try to run

Re: X not start

2008-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:37:53 Oct 18, Daniel Bareiro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did not try to initiate X of that way. After to have tried, it did not work either. This is what I obtain in the log: (EE) Unable to locate/open config file Why are you getting this error? Copy the

Re: X not start

2008-10-17 Thread Daniel Bareiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 17, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use KDE in OpenBSD but I'm having problems with the basic step: to obtain that X server works. I have this problem with OpenBSD 4.3. With snapshot of OpenBSD 4.4, X server

X not start

2008-10-16 Thread Daniel Bareiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I'm trying to use KDE in OpenBSD but I'm having problems with the basic step: to obtain that X server works. I have this problem with OpenBSD 4.3. With snapshot of OpenBSD 4.4, X server works without problems. For both cases, I indicated

Re: X not start

2008-10-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 00:55:38 Oct 17, Daniel Bareiro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I'm trying to use KDE in OpenBSD but I'm having problems with the basic step: to obtain that X server works. I have this problem with OpenBSD 4.3. With snapshot of OpenBSD 4.4, X server works