[ale] FC13 question

[Drifter]

On Friday, July 30, 2010 06:27:21 pm Sparr wrote:
> If you just need GUI apps, and not the basic parts of the GUI itself
> (like, say, tray applets), then you can just "gksudo gnome-terminal"
> or "kdesu konsole" to get a terminal completely owned by root in your
> user's X session and run apps from there. Am I missing some
> requirement here?

Just one rather elementary one:  knowing the actual name of the apps in 
order to invoke them from the command line. :)

Sean



> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> 
wrote:
> > There are times when I need to to things as root that are -- for me
> > -- much easier to do using the GUI aps rather than the command line.
> > Years ago on a Red Hat install, root actually had a directory in
> > /home and I could log into the system as root and have the GUI.
> > 
> > This FC13 install doesn't provide that feature. I can create, as
> > root, a directory in /home. That's easy enough.  But what do I have
> > to do so that I can log in as root directly just as I log into my
> > regular user account? If I try to log in as root now, the system
> > just laughs at me.
> > 
> > Clearly I am missing several steps in the process.
> > 
> > Sean
> 
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