Nagging X problem

[Kent Nyberg]

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>