On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 13:18 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: > I'm not asking how to use Gnome. I'm raising what seems to me a > usability issue - why can't I use the screensaver as root ? Seems to me > a necessary feature. The messages that come up about running it as > nobody etc are not user-friendly or even comprehensible. > Rod
The author of Xscreensaver explains this pretty well: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-fail Even if you do get it working, it will never ask for a password when you're root (because it's designed to be usable from a display manager) _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
