Also note, if you 'startx' as the super user you end up with an X session as the super user... This is really really a bad idea from a security point of view. Not tired it in a while, but I thought start x could be run by any user, not just root ?
You should not log in as the superuser, just log in as your normal user and if you need to be superuser then open a shell and su. This is the result of the ps command from a shell while logged in under my normal user from level 5 [root@linbook2 ~]# ps aux | grep gdm root 3127 0.0 0.3 16072 3284 ? Ss 16:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 3204 0.0 0.3 16412 3080 ? S 16:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 3206 14.5 2.5 32936 23036 tty7 SLs+ 16:40 2:48 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7 root 3742 0.0 0.0 4008 724 pts/1 S+ 16:59 0:00 grep gdm Notice gdm is still there as a process so it must be consuming some resources, maybe not a lot but I will system free memory from several states and report back. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
