-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 January 2004 09:31 pm, Charles Love wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:49, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
Charles Love wrote:
I tried just typing gnome-settings-daemon and got...
############################################# inux-clove:~ # gnome-settings-daemon Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0 xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (65534/65533)> xscreensaver: This is probably because you're logging in as root.
sounds like xscreensaver is trying to teach you good habits
[snip] SH
I only login as root for now.. Once I get a handle on things I will move over to a user..
I feel the need to butt in here, It sounds like you are saying that you are learning how to use linux so you always log in as root. I would suggest (if my assumption is right) that you go right now and create a user account to login with for your learning phase. Once you have reached a certain level of knowledge then you will realize that you rarely need to login as root. In other words You don't know enough to log in as root, when you do then you'll know enough not to login as root. My experience (mainly using kde) is that the root user sometimes has a hard time saving preferences. I assume that this is to encourage people to use "user accounts" wherever possible and only log into root when necessary. When I need to use graphical tools as root I open a terminal and type sux my-root-password then the name of the command (with its full path if needed) See ya - -- dh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+kvABwgxlylUsJARAkPaAJ4yYtCWDtP2C2L9VInIpDl6sJPtFQCcCkm/ KjjdgyVyPisG25jsmM0SRG0= =s6+m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----