On Monday 13 November 2006 10:34 pm, oleksandr korneta wrote: > on 11/10/2006 04:32 PM John Aldrich wrote: > > On Friday 10 November 2006 4:14 pm, Beartooth wrote: > >> Hmmmm .... Do you mean there's a way to get to them through the GUI as > >> root? Short of logging in as root?? Or do you do that?? > > > > No, you have to log in as "root" and then open up Firefox. It's not a > > real > > you do not have to login as root (in a sense of logging out of current > session and log in as root), just open a console, do "su" there, and > then run firefox. > True. However, you may have difficulty getting "root" apps to run on a user desktop. IF you do, you can always run "xhost +localhost" so that you can do that. Or you can just lock the current session and start a new one and log in as root. That's what I've started to do since I discovered you can have multiple concurrent X sessions. :-)
