Re: X black screen when logged in as root

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Hi,

Do you have a window manager for a root login?

James
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 21:36, Jeremy Tarling wrote:
> Hello, I wonder if anyone can help with this problem.
> 
> When I startx as my normal user login everything works fine.  However, 
> when I run startx as root, it appears to start but gets no further than 
> a black screen with an 'x' style mouse.  
> 
> The weird thing is, after I kill the X session with ctrl-alt-backspace 
> there are no error messages on the screen.  I have checked in the 
> xfree86 messages log too and there are no reported problems there 
> either. It's as if X thinks everything is fine!
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> Jeremy Tarling
> 
> 
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