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From: AGottinger@... (Achim Gottinger)
Subject: Re: xfce and root
Date: Sun May 6 16:01:02 2001
Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> yes, I have ~/.xfce.  I even removed this folder and started xfce again, but xfce will not do anything as a normal user.
> 
can you start the apps from an xterm? 
You can try the following, remove your .xinitrc file and say
echo "xfce" > ~/.wm
Then run startx and see ig things work now.

bye achim~


> Another thing: su does not seem to work.  su will not acdept my root password.
> 
You must add the users that should be allowed to su to the wheel group
in /etc/groups
> Any further suggestions?
> 
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> Collins Richey
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