Nagging X problem

[Thomas E. Dukes]

> 
> 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