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:
> > > > [...]
> > > > >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