how to login gnome as root

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 06.12.2004, 23:09 -0500 schrieb Travis Newman:
> use "gksudo nautilus" from the run dialog, or from a terminal "sudo 
> nautilus" to open an instance of nautilus with root privileges. As far 
> as other system changes, you do know you still use your own password for 
> everything in the System Config section of the menu, right? That's where 
> all the major system changes go. Anything else you can sudo, pretty much.
but do this only if you never ever want to add launchers to your menu or
change settings in nautilus as a user....running nautilus with sudo or
gksudo will cange the permissions of all the hidden files, settings and
userpreferences nautilus uses. you will not be able to change any
setting anymore as a user.....

i would suggest not using ANY X app as root....its pretty likely that it
will break your user settings (this goes especially for filemanagers,
mailclients and browsers). if you dont know how to fix it, leave it
alone...dont use root in X.

ciao
	oli

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