Suse 8.0: Can't change root background!
This is a discussion about Suse 8.0: Can't change root background! in the Everything Linux category; 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.
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
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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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
xauth merge ~<username>/.Xauthority
now you can run X-apps as root without that nasty error saying cannot connect to Xserver
OP
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.
OP
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.
-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.....
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.....
