Nagging X problem
Kent Nyberg
nyberg.kent at spray.se
Sat Sep 25 19:53:35 UTC 2004
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 at spray.se>
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