Nagging X problem
Thomas E. Dukes
edukes at alltel.net
Sat Sep 25 19:38:02 UTC 2004
>
> 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
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