Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 14-02-21 16:39:29, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: ... > Because I don't like to spend time to issue sudo or su - command > everytime I need it. > It's more hard for me to convert my environment to a normal user. I keep a terminal tab open su-'ed to root, and just use that tab when I need root. I

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno ven, 21/02/2014 alle 21.58 +, Powell, Michael ha scritto: > > > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > > > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > > > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > > > > > > > Because I

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno gio, 20/02/2014 alle 20.22 +0600, g ha scritto: > because they drive a car with 4 speed stick shift and they like to > skip 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gear? :-) Please, forget for a moment that I want to use root and that root should not to be used for normal things. The question is that xhost i

RE: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Powell, Michael
> > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > > > > Because I don't like to spend time to issue sudo or su - command everytime I > need it. > It

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-21 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno gio, 20/02/2014 alle 17.03 +1030, Tim ha scritto: > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > Because I don't like to spend time to issue

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-20 Thread g
On 02/20/2014 12:33 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2014, Ambrogio De Lorenzo sent: Ok, I understand very well every problems related to the use of root or administrator. Translate to another question: I use a normal user, but I want to use another user for another program,

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2014, Ambrogio De Lorenzo sent: > Ok, I understand very well every problems related to the use of root > or administrator. > > Translate to another question: > I use a normal user, but I want to use another user for another > program, because I don't want that th

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-19 Thread g
On 02/19/2014 12:03 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: Il giorno mar, 18/02/2014 alle 23.44 +, g ha scritto: On 02/18/2014 10:14 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: <<>> i would estimate that most all users, like 99.99%, on this list >> log in as a user and use root only when necessary and it

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-19 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno mar, 18/02/2014 alle 23.44 +, g ha scritto: > > On 02/18/2014 10:14 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > <<>> > i would estimate that most all users, like 99.99%, on this > list log in as a user and use root only when necessary and > it is because most all users on this list are practic

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-18 Thread g
On 02/18/2014 10:14 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: <<>> The problem is that there are a lot of reasons I won't use a user instead of root, and I think that if root exist, it should e used. root exist to be used when it is needed. all the time is when it is needed. > As in my car I have the

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/18/2014 02:14 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: Well... first of all, if I use another user and I issue rm -rf * maybe I will have a perfectly working laptop but without data! And for me data are more important than a working system. That all depends; if you do it in (let's say) ~/Downloads,

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-18 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Il giorno mar, 18/02/2014 alle 12.45 -0800, Joe Zeff ha scritto: > On 02/18/2014 12:33 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > > I use my laptop with a user (root in this case, but please don't say > > "don't use root"). > > If you want to run as root, go right ahead and do so. (I have an old > laptop

Re: Help needed with xhost

2014-02-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/18/2014 12:33 PM, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: I use my laptop with a user (root in this case, but please don't say "don't use root"). If you want to run as root, go right ahead and do so. (I have an old laptop that ambles along with Puppy, because that's about all it can handle. Puppy

Help needed with xhost

2014-02-18 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi all, I use my laptop with a user (root in this case, but please don't say "don't use root"). Sometimes I use to launch on terminal some commands with other users. To permit to that commands to display on my screen I used "xhost +". This worked well on my last laptop with fedra 14. Now, on Fedor