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. -- Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent@xxxxxxxx>
