On Monday 04 October 2004 17:32, Thereidos wrote:
> W liÅcie z pon, 04-10-2004, godz. 23:53, Kaj Haulrich pisze:
> > > Thanks.
> > > I meant the permanent one but it seems that my father would like
> > > to have an account so that he could play KDE's games :) Thus I'm
> > > afraid I'll have to change inittab back to 5.
> >
> > Why not boot into runlevel 3 on a permanent basis ? - I am sure
> > your father can learn to type : "Xtart".
> >
> > Xtart is a small program written by the venerable Civileme (of this
> > list fame - where is he ???). It presents you with a numbered text
> > menu from which to choose your favoured desktop environment.
> >
> > So, just urpmi xtart and edit /etc/inittab to runlevel 3.
>
> Yeah, I know Xtart. In fact I have suggested this app to someone else
> on this list yesterday :)
>
> Currently I do have inittab switched to runlevel 3 but to use
> shutdown you need a root access which I won't give my father. Or
> maybe I'm wrong?
I think you  are wrong.  As nonroot I click on the KDE logout button 
select turn computer off and everything goes off except for the 
monitor. Which I have to turn off. Gnome has a logout icon also which 
works simular.  Shutdown does the same but you have to be root to use 
that.
-- 
Regards;
Hoyt
Registered Linux User #363264
http://counter.li.org

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