Re: RPMS on application CD with RH 5.1

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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An easier way is to run su without the dash:

su

This will keep your old enviroment of the original user so you can run
Xapps without having to exit X and login as root and run startx.

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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Steven Karel wrote:

> Thanks! You were right, that's what I was doing. After doing startx as root it works. I will also checkout xrpm. 
> 
> steven
> 
> >I've seen these problems when I try o run glint or any other control-panel
> >component from an su - root window under x. My wild-assed guess is that the X
> >server belongs to the user who started it, and can't respond to the requests from
> >jroot's apps -- I've noticed that it usually chokes while trying to create a
> >button or menu. My solution is to log in as root if I want to use the control
> >panel,
> >


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