Aha, gotcha. Maybe somebody else can suggest some XFree86 magic, I mostly do command line stuff.
I suggest you hit http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqNewQuestions and ask there. The FAQs there seem to be well-maintained. I didn't see your specific question, but you might wanna read through em and there is lots of useful info there. John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Brad N Bendily To: ''[email protected]' ' Sent: 9/2/03 10:29 AM Subject: Re: making GUI apps run as root on Knoppix was RE: [brlug-general] kn oppix rocks On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, John Hebert wrote: > To run a GUI app as root on Knoppix, open a shell do 'su - root', and then > run the app from the command line: 'gedit', etc. You can find the name of > the command in the menu by using the menu editor. > > Knoppix is locked down to keep people from inadvertently destroying their > data. You have to explicitly do commands that could destroy data. I realize > it is a headache, but I think the tradeoff between power and newbie-proofing > is worth it in order to provide a bootable Linux CD that is fairly safe to > give to newbies. When I run the GUI command as root it said that it couldn't open the display? And when I did xhost + that didn't help it either. BB _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
