Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Tue Jan 22 13:33:30 UTC 2013


On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:33:17 +0100, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> Note that you shouldn't run "startx" from your root account

I've still tons of issues to solve, one issue is to get GDM run or to
directly start x without a display manager. It didn't work as described in
the handbook, perhaps it would work now, after the ports tree upgrade,
however, I start x from tty after login in as user ... $ startx ... IIRC,
if you start x as root, Thunar will warn you, that you run the session as
root.

I'll do an experiment now, Ctrl + Alt + F1 [snip] ...

Don't worry, I'm back in a user session, but I run a root session and got
"Warning, you are using the root account, you may harm your system."
by Thunar 1.6.2.

Regards,
Ralf


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