Konqueror as root: warning background colour?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Jan 22 23:00:33 UTC 2010


Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Fri 22 January 2010 12:19:08 pm John Pilkington wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Friday 22 January 2010 19:40:15 John Pilkington wrote:
>>>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>>> On 01/22/2010 01:08 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
>>>>>> In kde 3.5 Konqueror - specifically in CentOS_5 - the background
>>>>>> colour could be set to indicate who owned the window.
>>>>> Really?  How?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Rex
>>>> View > Configure Background, File Manager profile, 3.5.10-2.el5
>>>>
>>>> I've only tried it with one user and root, but the backgrounds show
>>>> who's who.
>>> I set coloured text for Root - anything I do as root is then obvious to
>>> me - I can't forget! ;-)
>> I'd be happy with that, but hadn't found a way of doing it, or of
>> setting the default View Profile.  Is it a 'custom font?'  I'm looking
>> at f10 at present, but limited exploration in f12 has drawn blanks too.
>>
>> John P
> 
> Run ``systemsettings'' as root and configure it to use a different text color. 
> Then that applies to all KDE apps run as root.
> 
> Ryan

Thanks for suggesting this, but when I tried it from a root Konsole it 
just sat waiting for unspecified input.  Perhaps I'll wait for 4.4

??   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151669#c117

John P


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