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bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

How to not run GDM as root?

Hello. I have that power policy popup message after suspending with gnome-power-manager.
And I've heard that it's becuse GDM runs as root. Any ideas?

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loosec

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Registered: 2007-03-08

Posts: 134

Re: How to not run GDM as root?

You could try to start gdm manually from /etc/rc.local with
su - username -c "/usr/sbin/gdm"
and comment it out of /etc/inittab. If that works you could probably add it there instead.