Re: [tlug] Root - NO KDE

[Nguyen Hung Vu <vuhung@example.com>]

On 22 Jun 2002, Eric Oliver Flores wrote:

> Actually I don't use root at all but the change took place as user and
> that affected root.  So when I wanted to test the root account I found
> that KDE was out!!  Perhaps is the way that Mandrake is setup.
> 
>

Why do you want to run KDE as root? It is dangerous.
If you want to run, for example konqueror as root,then run it from konsole

%su
#konqueror

Good luck

  
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 20:04, Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:49:33PM +0900,
> > Eric Oliver Flores wrote:
> > > Boti,
> > > 
> > > I worked on the file name you mentioned .xinitrc but seen the complexity
> > > of this, I rather not go any further for now.  I think I am just going
> > > to leave it as is when ever the system crashes then I'll reinstall and
> > > not mess with the locales any more...hahaha!  
> > > 
> > > I learned some thing here ... The old saying "if not broken then don't
> > > fix it..."
> > 
> > Well, as a matter of policy, you really shouldn't be running KDE as root
> > anyway (or Gnome, for that matter). Gnome should give you a warning about
> > this as you log in.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Shimpei Yamashita                               http://www.shimpei.org/
> > You can't have everything. Where would you put it?    -- Steve Wright
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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