Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Kent West wrote: > I'm too new at this to be much help, but I ran into similar problems > running apps as root outside of X. A friend told me that root doesn't have > the current directory in its path, (unlike DOS). So in order to run an app > that is in your current directory,

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-03 Thread Kent West
I'm too new at this to be much help, but I ran into similar problems running apps as root outside of X. A friend told me that root doesn't have the current directory in its path, (unlike DOS). So in order to run an app that is in your current directory, you have to specifiy the entire path on the c

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-03 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard Evans Hartman wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) > > When I login as "me", I can access the KDE games > > However, when I login as "root", and try to run a game, I get the message > "could not execute program __

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Richard Evans Hartman wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) > It may be a matter of your path for the root user. I believe you need /usr/games included in the path to run the KDE games. Take a look at the file .bash_profile in the /root directory t

KDE games problem...

1998-08-02 Thread Richard Evans Hartman
Hello all, I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) When I login as "me", I can access the KDE games However, when I login as "root", and try to run a game, I get the message "could not execute program ___" Any ideas? I thought root could run anything? Thanks in adva