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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