Re: [tlug] Root - NO KDE

[Eric Oliver Flores <tokoton@example.com>]

I do not!

The Mandrake distribution is setup to log any user in the default GUI.


On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:47, Nguyen Hung Vu wrote:
> 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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