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I use Slackware 12.0, As you know it starts at runlevel 3 by default. So, when I login as non-root user and try to 'startx' it does not start KDE. How could I setup KDE for a normal user can run KDE?
May be I didn't explain it well. I already use KDE. As root startx starts KDE. But I have create a user account, obviously with permissions of a normal user.
At level 3 I log as user, but when invoke startx it says "Cannot move /var/log/Xorg.0.log to Xorg.0.log.old Giving up..." and doesn't start KDE. Obviously i gave 777 permission to that file but nothing seems to change.
So my question is, where is supposed to configure KDE to run it as non-root user?
Open /etc/inittab as root and change the run level to the X11 one (not on Linux at the moment), that will start Linux up with a graphical environment. If you want to leave the command line and manually startx, as your normal user run xwmconfig and select KDE as the default desktop - when the user runs startx KDE will start up.
If the real problem is that that file can't be moved, moved it by hand as the same user that you will be using to run kde. If you can't move it, then all you need to do is to find why. Possible causes are:
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