Starting Gnome

ikkuh1991 · 03-06-2005, 02:25 PM

When I boot Linux and login as root I want to start gnome but how do I do this?
(I've got slackware 10.0)

hamish · 03-06-2005, 02:33 PM

Don't!! You should never run X as root. Just log in as a normal user and then type "su" in command line to switch to root user. then do all tasks like that.

If you haven't added a normal user, then do it (as root):
# useradd -m username

You can normally start gnome by typeing:
$ startx

hamish

ikkuh1991 · 03-07-2005, 09:12 AM

When I've added the user nothing happens, should I get a confirmation and how do I set a password?

reddazz · 03-07-2005, 09:40 AM

#passwd username