Suse 8.0: Can't change root background!

Everything Linux 1798 This topic was started by Tomay, 2003-02-06 17:10

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2003-02-06 18:10

When I first logged on as root I changed the red background with something that didn't hurt my eyes so much, but after I rebooted it was all back.
I can not change the background the color of the desktop font ...

even if I restart X it's all back to the default settings.

If i log on as a normal user (not as root) I don't have such problems.

How can I change the root desktop settings??
I use KDE

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HP has alot of nerve!

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punkisdead

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#103421

2003-02-07 04:34

Why are you trying to run X as root? If you need to run an app in X you could always su to root then type in:

xauth merge ~<username>/.Xauthority

now you can run X-apps as root without that nasty error saying cannot connect to Xserver

Tomay

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#103422

2003-02-07 14:26

I'm running as a normal user now, but when I mount and unmount I get errors that only root can do that. Is there a way to give higher priorities to a normal user.

Tomay

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#103423

2003-02-07 14:37

I'm gonna play around some with the chmod command. Where can I find what the -rwxr-xr-x means. I know that r-read w-write x-execute. But is there a good howto on this.

punkisdead

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#103424

2003-02-07 23:07

-rwsr-xr-x the first set is the owners permissions, the second set is the group member permissions, and the last is everyone else.....

do a ls -l /dev/cdrom* if this is linked to something else for instance if it is your cdburner it might be sr0 or scd0. you should see something like the following....

brw-rw---- 1 root cdrecording 11, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/scd0

This device is owned by root and group is cdrecording, I believe in Suse the group is disk. So if you make yourself a member of disk you should be able to mount it.....