Re: Installing KDE

2000-05-07 Thread Esko P Lehtonen
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I have downloaded KDE and would like to install it. I have all of the > essential packages as well as some optional ones. When I install I do so > like this for each package, one at a time: > > dpkg -i package.deb > > This installs but throws up a

Re: Xwrapper? Thanks

2000-05-07 Thread Esko P Lehtonen
On 7 May 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > What's commonly referred to as "Xwrapper" is just that: it's a > so-called "wrapper" program that does some work (in this case, getting > necessary permissions and dropping root priviledges) and the starts > the real X server. On a normal Debian installation

Xwrapper?

2000-05-07 Thread Esko P Lehtonen
I have read that using Xwrapper I could use X server as normal user. Now if I type 'startx' in console my screen goes black and I can only kill the X server. Should I put Xwrapper somewhere into my rc files? How? How dangerous is it to run Xserver as suid root if I am not connected to any network