I am really new to linux. i have had it up and running for maybe a week. i have been playing around tho and i really like it, but now i am sort of stuck. i got the kde desktop up and running on SuSE 7.0 ( which was a hassle when i found out my cd-rom was not able to be booted from ) . My only problem is that i cant get " startx " to work with regular users. anyone out there have any ideas?


thanks,

randall

does anyone have an idea or advice on this? i am in dier need

thanks,

randall

Are you sure regular users have enought rights to start X?
locate startx
chmod +755 startx

err ...
ill try those commands but can you explain a little more about what they do possibly? i am really new to linux ...

thanks,
randall

First of all, when you want to find out what a command does, try typing in man command or info command (where you would replace command with the command you are trying to learn about).

Locate is a sort of find program that helps you to find various files on your computer. For example, if you are trying to find a file named mydoc.txt, but you can't remember where you put it, you could type in locate mydoc or locate .txt (yes, just part of the file name will work).

The problem it seems you are having is that your normal users aren't allowed to use the startx command. Chmod changes the 'permissions' on the file so that they are allowed to.

Another thing that might cause your problem could be that normal users don't have the command startx in their 'path' (where the computer goes looking for the program you told it to run). You can either type in the full path to it each time you want to run it (/usr/X11R6/bin/startx on my system), or add the directory containing startx (/usr/X11R6/bin) to each users path in the .bash_profile in their home directories.

Hope this helps.