From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FsgZT-000084-Dw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:47:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5KDjmVo023042; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:45:48 GMT Received: from mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (mxo3.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.83]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5KDf62q012969 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:41:07 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (unknown [207.68.230.60]) by mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B2C163D9 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4497FAEB.4010809@vista-express.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:40:59 -0500 From: Teresa and Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060518 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Stupid Question about su That I Should Already Know The Answer To But Don't References: <1150809750.21942.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1150809750.21942.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 13061b6a-f0c1-4588-8ecc-50732cfdaae9 X-Archives-Hash: 2270f6e1fa80c48a1fb81c70b65104f1 Michael Sullivan wrote: >Since my reinstall last week, when I su - to root from the michael >account, root can't use GUI apps. It used to be able to before the >install, and as far as I know, I didn't do anything special to enable >it. How would I go about doing that? > > > I'm not real sure I got what you are saying but check these two things. You are n the wheel group and KDE doesn't like you to login as root so it is disabled. I think you can change it in login manager. Hope one of those helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list