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

["Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown com>]

Well, if you decide to run your system at a run level to support graphical
logins exclusively and that area were more accessible, gdm would be used to
run the gnome environment.  Us slackware users cannot get gdm to work
however.  Or at least I could never do it and Adam Miro told me a while back
he couldn't either.  I got as far as adding some pre-recorded wav files to a
startup file so when I would run gdm to start things up, I could hear a
prompt to login and it would also tell me that the login was successful but
I could never get Orca to start after that.  Startx is the only thing that
works for me.  And I have only done it from my normal user account.  I think
I recall trying from root once with no success.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Caloggero [mailto:rjc MIT EDU]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 3:17 PM
> To: Alex Snow
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Slightly OT: Running gnome as root
>
> 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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