> > 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
