On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can | change terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not | accept it, but will allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I | log into KDE anyway, but KDM does not show KDE as a choice for my | GUI. I had no problem logging into KDE using GDM under potato. | | What's the deal? | | 1. Why does GDM not accept the root password, when the console does?
'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. | 2. Why does KDM not show KDE as a choice? No idea. | 3. Why does it seem that since Ian Moore has become part of | debian/woody, that KDE has had alot of bugs? He seemed to be better | off when we hooked upto tdyc. I only used KDE on windows (cygwin/xfree). I decided on GNOME quite a while back, and I like it. -D
