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From: "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com>
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and ill agree here with chris, it is an extremely bad practice to run X as
root, you should always login as a user.... if you need to do maintenance or
something you can always use su or sudo

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:19:34 +0000
> "Siraj Shaikh" <siraj.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 05/03/2008, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > vi `/.xinitrc
> > >
> > > paste
> > >
> > > exec gnome-session
> > >
> > > then :wq
> > >
> > > save the file, and startx
> > >
> > is that /.xinitrc ? or in my home directory, /root/.xinitrc ?
>
> In your home dir. Unless you are using the root account as your default
> (and that's just bad practice).
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
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