Re: Info on debian boot/xwindow process

[Albert <albertwagner@cox.net>]

Kent West wrote:
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Thanks, Kent.  That was a very useful mini-tutorial.

> Concerning logging into Gnome (or any X setup) as root: that's not
> recommended practice. Generally, you can override this safety setting by
> tinkering in the Gnome configuration file (but I'm not sure of the
> specifics, as I don't use Gnome). If you _must_ log into X as root (AND
> YOU DON'T NEED TO!!), I recommend that you do it manually with "startx"
> rather than allowing it from the login manager. Just start a second X
> session ("startx -- :1", then Ctrl-Alt-F7 or Ctrl-Alt-F8 to toggle back
> and forth between the two sessions) or kill the login manager first
> ("/etc/init.d/gdm stop").

Hmm. I'll have to try killing the login manager.  My reply above 
to Paul describes what I did to enable use of startx.

:) I've been on Linux for several years on my home machine using 
several distributions. I know logging on as root is not 
recommended but it's just too big a pain in the butt to *not* be 
root.  I've encountered no downside yet.



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