Hi Joost, Joost Kremers wrote:
hi all,
i am relatively new to linux and i have a few basic questions, that i hope someone will be willing to help me with. i am running SuSE 6.2 and KDE 1.1.2.
- i have set my system to boot to the command prompt, because i don't want to start KDE when i log on as root. however, when i log on as a user, i would like to start KDE automatically. at first i just put the command 'startx' in ~/.profile. that works, but when i open up a terminal in KDE, it gives an error message saying that the X server is already running.
Because .profile is read everytime a new shell is started.
i reckon i can solve this problem by adjusting ~/.profile in such a way that startx is only executed when X isn't already running, but how can i test this?
Maybe you can put it in ~/.login instead?
- is it possible to configure the system in such a way that a user can shut the computer down, too, and not just 'root'? it's annoying to have to su to root all the time before shutting down.
Yes, shutdown control can be set in YaST: System Administration / Change Configuration file. In there is a variable that controls who can shut down the machine (root, local users, console, all). I forgot its exact name.
- i don't really understand the concepts of 'X server', 'window manager' etc. is there any good documentation on this? something that explains the outline of the graphical interface in unix/linux in some detail?
Maybe this is what you're looking for: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO.html. Haven't read it myself though.
any help would be greatly appreciated!
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