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 .xinit

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 l

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
Thanks all for your answers. I did think that i had checked everything before posting something on the mailing list, but missed the current faq. Arnoud On Saturday, November 10, 2018 23:32 CET, Zé Loff wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 04:00:53PM -0500, Arnoud Otten wrote: > > Startx does

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 inte

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 somet

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

2018-11-10 Thread Solene
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. Le 10 novembre 2018 22:00:53 GMT+01:00, Arnoud Otten a écrit : >Startx doesn`t work anymore on my Lenovo W520. >I had a working X se

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 n