Re: [orca-list] Slightly OT: Running gnome as root

[Alex Snow <lists h14me homelinux net>]

I'm actually not entirely sure what the point of gdm is...I know back 
in the day when slackware shipped with gnome stock, it used to use 
gdm, but now with gnome.slackbuild it doesn't. I'm not all that 
familiar with X in general so can't give much more information...
On Mon, 
Mar 03, 2008 at 05:17:16PM -0500, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> What is the advantage or disadvantage of running gdm?  Is this a "window 
> manager"? What exactly does it do?
> Sorry for my ignorance, but X startup has always been a mystery to me.  Any 
> docs that make this clear?
> 
> Alex wrote:
> >Is this part of any configuration for gnome-session, and if so, where 
> >would  that configuration be located?
> 
> What is gnome-session? I definately see a process called gnome-session on 
> my machine, which is always present when someone is logged in at the 
> console. Does this mean that I'm not using gdm either?  I do have /etc/gdm 
> directory.
> 
> Thanx.
> -- Rich
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <lists h14me homelinux net>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Slightly OT: Running gnome as root
> 
> 
> >Looking around a bit more, I find some documentation saying you need to
> >edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf...since I'm not using gdm, is there somewhere
> >else I should look for something preventing me from starting as root? is
> >this part of any configuration for gnome-session, and if so, where would
> >that configuration be located?
> >
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