On lör, 2004-09-25 at 15:38 -0400, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
On lör, 2004-09-25 at 15:00 -0400, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
On Sep 25, 2004 at 14:19, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing
rage wrote:
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I do not have kde installed. I have been using gnome. It
looks as if
your .Xclients is configured to run kde. Any idea what the
command is
to start gnome desktop?
exec gnome-session
This is weird........
It works if I am logged in as edukes but not root. Why
does it allow
me to login as root in runlevel 5 but not if started
manually under runlevel 3?
Any ideas?
Thanks again!!
Cant say something about your problem, but you should not use the root account that way anyhow.. Mostly its better to get used to using 'su' to become root for things you need to do. Being root means any mistake might break the whole
system, which is
not just mistakes idiots do - we all do them some times.
Hi Kent,
I understand.
How do you su to root in X? I need to install the new firefox. If I'm not root, I can only install it to the non-user home
directory.
I'd rather install it once than multiple times.
Thanks
su is a command you run from a terminal, so run gnome-terminal.
But if your only installing programs, then starting X as root might not be the biggest problem in the world :) Do as you like.
Otherwise, installing program when you have used su depends on how you want to install them. Just run the chosed program from the terminal.. and it should work.
Hey Kent,
I'd like to be able to start X as root for such occassions but this lead me back to my initial post. I didn't realize it was an X/root thing until today. I still would rather boot to runlevel 3 and stat X manually, when needed.
What do I neet to edit to allow root to start X manually. Its weird that it works under runlevel 5.
TIA