[Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.

[Roger Whittaker]

There was actually considerable internal discussuion about whether this
behaviour was a bug or a feature.

For what it's worth, my view is:

1) Why does anyone want to run KDE as root?
2) if they do, isn't it better that they've got a constant reminder about
it?

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, John Southall wrote:

> 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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Roger Whittaker
SuSE Linux Ltd
The Kinetic Centre
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