Richard Owlett wrote: ... > However, it would solve a problem that I had assumed had to be endured. > I frequently have a workflow needing root access for which I don't find > "su" convenient causing me to logout as 'richard' and login as 'root' > and back again.
um, i open a terminal window in one of my workspaces and su to root and leave it there. when i need root access to do something i click on that workspace and there it is ready to go. to get back to regular user me again i just click on other workspace i was on before or whatever else i want to do. what is hard about that? when i'm done working for the day i make sure all my programs have things saved that need to be saved and then use the root terminal to shutdown from the command line. next time i boot up i do have to sign in as root again, but that isn't a major problem to me. ... songbird
