[ale] FC13 question

[Scott Castaline]

On 07/30/2010 06:44 PM, Drifter wrote:
> 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. :)
>
Just open terminal and su - to login as root. If you're not sure of the 
command to start an app that you normally start from an icon or menu 
just go to System->Preferences->Look and Feel->main Menu. This will 
start the menu editor just check the properties of the app to get the 
command. I do it all the time for a few things. You do have to install 
alacarte first as that is not installed by default, which is the menu 
editor.
> 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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