Kent West wrote:
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Thanks, Kent. That was a very useful mini-tutorial.
Concerning logging into Gnome (or any X setup) as root: that's not
recommended practice. Generally, you can override this safety setting by
tinkering in the Gnome configuration file (but I'm not sure of the
specifics, as I don't use Gnome). If you _must_ log into X as root (AND
YOU DON'T NEED TO!!), I recommend that you do it manually with "startx"
rather than allowing it from the login manager. Just start a second X
session ("startx -- :1", then Ctrl-Alt-F7 or Ctrl-Alt-F8 to toggle back
and forth between the two sessions) or kill the login manager first
("/etc/init.d/gdm stop").
Hmm. I'll have to try killing the login manager. My reply above
to Paul describes what I did to enable use of startx.
:) I've been on Linux for several years on my home machine using
several distributions. I know logging on as root is not
recommended but it's just too big a pain in the butt to *not* be
root. I've encountered no downside yet.
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