[ale] FC13 question

[Sparr]

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?

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