> > 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
