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:
> > [...]
> > >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