[Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.

[John Southall]

Thanks Dylan and Stig,
    I'll take both pieces of advice.

Regards,

             John Southall          john at sthll.freeserve.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan" <gllug at dylan.me.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.


On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:25, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> * John Southall <john at sthll.freeserve.co.uk> spake thus:
> > I use Win98, but I have managed to install SuSE v8.0.
> > I have used the configure function to change the KDE desktop settings in
> > root.  Unfortunately the next time I login as root the settings have
> > reverted to a wallpaper of "root-logo.png" and a font size of 4; not
good
> > for my blood preasure.  Is there an "rc" file in /etc somewhere that I
> > should edit?
>
> I think you are going about this the wrong way... This is probably a
> (clever, I may add) trick by SuSE to remind you that you are logged in
> as root and that you should take care. Just create yourself a user
> account and hack on :) You should normally only log in as root when the
> normal user privileges are insufficient.
>
> Stig

No, not a clever trick! Silly mistake more like - it's in their support DB:

if you

touch /root/.skel/kdebase3

(I think) it'll create the mistakenly omited file. Then any subsequent
changes
will be remembered.

Dylan


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