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From: Brett Rogers <loki_bsd@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: another question
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:34:46 -0700
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On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:31 am, you wrote:
> On Friday 14 June 2002 02:27 am, you wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:21 am, you wrote:
> > > when i download stuff from the web, is it a good idea, to download =
them
> > > into /root? i mean when i am logged under root
> >
> > As a general rule it is not a good idea to login under root.  If your
> > user account is in the wheel group, you can run anything that require=
s
> > root permisions by using su or sudo.  (read the man pages)
>
> yeah i try that before, but then when i try to log onto kde with that u=
ser
> name in wheel group it doesn't go into kde, instead i see three windows
> with pale colors name xterm

exactly what is in /home/<username>/.xinitrc?

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