[TheRecluse]

i got slackware installed, and configured xorg.conf

but now when i try to startx i get a xauth timeout i don't know how to fix this

[horndude]

did you run xwmconfig and pick a window manager?

[TheRecluse]

well i can do that in root, and startx in root.. but it does the xauth timeout in a regular user...

says something about cannot find something or permission denied

[horndude]

need to see what the error is exactly or all I can do is guess, check the X log file

[TheRecluse]

i can't remember verbatim, i'll reboot and write it down

[TheRecluse]

well, i seem to have messed something up when i created my original user, i just created a new user and everything started just fine.. but this is what i got when using my original one...

$ startx
xauth: timeout in locking authority file //.Xauthority
xauth: timeout in locking authority file //.Xauthority

after a couple times of that it started KDE, but i got a ton of error messages saying i didn't have access to the /home directory

[horndude]

slackware comes with two ways to make new users while in the commandline, use adduser, the normal useradd program requires that you create the other files by hand

what happened was when you created the new user the first time there wasnt an Xauthority file or an xinitrc file in that users home directory,so X wouldnt start properly

[TheRecluse]

hmm alright i'll remember that. thanks