Linux on the desktop?

[John & Sheila Nickerson]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Ray Strode wrote re:[luau] Re: Linux on the desktop?:
 > I would just like to have my entrie desktop to temporarily have
 > root permissions if I wanted it to.  Mostly the file manager, and
 > the advanced text editor, or the menue edit program, In other words
 > I would like to be able to do root jobs from my user desktop.  You
 > can do it with the CLI, but can you get the GUI to switch?
 You use KDE yea?  I'm not real familar with it, but these steps should
 bring up a panel running as root.
 
 from a non root terminal type
   xhost +localhost
 then type
   su
   [your root password]
   kpanel & disown
   exit
 
 This should (hopefully) bring up another panel, that any program you
 launch from it will be run as root.
 
 Btw, if you want to setup sudo, just do something like
    echo "cyberclops  ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
 --Ray
 
 
And if this fails try setting root's display to use window 0.0 of your nonroot
desktop by issueing the csh command: 

# setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0

John
  
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