Konqueror as root: warning background colour?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Jan 23 08:37:35 UTC 2010


John Pilkington wrote:
> 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

OK: $ kdesu systemsettings did it.  I've changed the window text colour 
for root, which should provide an alert.  Thanks to all.

John P



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