On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things > as the current GTK theme; OR >
No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're root. You could set the theme for the root user though. > 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt? > No, installing packages requires root permissions. gnome-apt might let you do package selections as a regular user eventually, but you'll always have to be root to actually install. Havoc
