Sometime on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:10:11PM +0530, Steven Joseph said:
just a tip , security tip ... dont get into the habit of loggin gui as root ... login as a user and run the program as root
open terminal ...
# su # <command>
or use kdesu <command> in kde ... sorry dont know equivalent in gnome.
$ gksu <command>
Anurag