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Re: KDM not allowing root to access the default screen for x-apps



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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:55:04PM +0000, Joseph Jones wrote:
> KDM wont allow me to use Gnome-Apt because it wont allow root access to 
> the default screen. I am logged in as a regular user, open a terminal, 
> su into root, try and load gnome-apt, but it wont allow root access to 
> the screen. This only happens when I use KDM, GDM does not have this 
> problem.

In KDE, open a run dialogue and type kdesu -c <command> where
<command> is the program you wish to run as superuser.

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