desktops & window managers. alsi su -l :access denied!
 

i sort of know the difference(i think). but can i run a window manager like sawfish without a desktop like gnome. cos gnome and kde run slooooowly on my pc. well kde does. gnome is only slow when i have mozilla open. btw should mozilla take +/- 30sec to open?
I know my P2 400 w/ 64mb RAM is waaaaaay outdated but even bloatware XP is faster.

anyway all i want is a nice wallpaper, a few icons, and a terminal or two. no cpu/ram meters or eyes that follow my mouse around :)

so if compiled the sawfish source, i'm guessing i'd have to edit either display manager or xsession in rc.conf, is that right?

also i tried to login with su -l so i could 'make install' but when i enter the root password it just says access denied!

No idea what all the sawfishing is about ... but
what are the permissions on su?

ls -l `which su`


Cheers,
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