<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>You should never login to X as root, you are supposed to use sudo to elevate to superuser. If you really need root, you can enable the root account with sudo usermod -U root And can be locked again with sudo usermod -L root Joshua <div class="gmail_quote">Garry@garryricketsonartworks.org wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">How can I login as root, xubuntu never allows it ? From Garry <a href="http://www.garryricketsonartworks.org">http://www.garryricketsonartworks.org</a> End of xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1 ******************************************** </pre></blockquote></div> -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html></body></html>