Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:30:13AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 18:17 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:27:31AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Also note that using the "screen" program on Mach console is also a > > pretty good choice. > > Don't know anything about screen, I warmly recommend changing that -- it's an enormously useful tool :-) > what to write here? TBH, I'm not sure myself... I just pointed out the situation; I'll leave it up to you whether you consider it useful to actually change anything :-) > > > 2) Hurd console after boot: Log in to the Mach console and run the > > > executable script: hurd-console [...] > > I don't see much point in creating a script for this -- once used, the > > command can be easily fetched from shell history... > > Yes, but in the Mach console you cannot do editing easily Err... Why would that be? > > > As user: sudo startx > > > As root: startx (not recommended) > > > > Why root? It works fine as normal user here... It's generally not > > recommended to run a whole X session as root. > > We still have the bug when exiting X as user, see Samuels reply. Actually, Samuel's reply talks about starting permissions, which is a distinct issue I think... In either case, your guide mentions workarounds for both problems -- so why still recommend running as root? -antrik-
