On 01/17/2015 01:38 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt <cu...@free.fr
<mailto:cu...@free.fr>> wrote:

    On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com
    <mailto:kogor...@gmail.com>> wrote:
    >>
    >> startx
    >>
    >>
    >> I did
    > sudo startx

    I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended
    to be root when you startx.

    <https://lists.debian.org/slrnmbl5p5.22m.cu...@einstein.electron.org>


I'm trying to learn here, so it would help if I knew why, or at least
got a link to such an unrecommendation.

You wouldn't open your standard user desktop. You'd open root's desktop which wouldn't be populated. Not to mention the standard caveat against running X as root. It's a security risk. :) Ric



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