On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:02:49AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Seriously though, it is nice to be able to separate things by workspace > within a session, but I like to have a different sessions for root and > similar functions that I don't want to get tangled up in my > run-of-the-mill user stuff. > Why would you have root run gnome? AFAIK, you should either use sudo or su to become root for a specific application then exit. Doug.