Re: Root is the only user that can run AfterStep

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> When I type startx xwindows almost loads then comes back to the shell and 
> there is an error saying, /usr/share/afterstep does not exist. When I am 
> logged in as this regular user I can go to that directory and see all the 
> same files the root can see, so I don't know what to do. If it is 
> permissions can set them for a group as opposed to individual users. I have a
> Linux book but it has very little in the way of permissions.
The name of the directory, perhaps, is /usr/share/afterstep, but is it
actually running afterstep? And if so, shouldn't there be a beginning of
AS (which might not actually be detectable though)? Anyway, the afterstep
executable is most likely called /usr/bin/X11/afterstep or some symlink
thereof. If you have /usr/share/afterstep in your .xinitrc, then this
could be the problem since that's a directory!
Anyway, if you just have afterstep in your .xinitrc at the end, or the
full path, then it's AS that's saying that, and I assume you must set
permissions using the chmod command which is fully documented in the chmod
man page, i.e. man chmod. I wouldn't know, though, because I use a
~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep directory for all my config files, as most AS
users too. The way to do this is quite simple, and is in the AS readme
file.


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