Christian Herzyk wrote:

Hello Richard,

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From: Richard Court [mailto:suse1@linuxmail.org]

Hi All,

I'm a newbie to SuSE 8.0 and I'm a little bit befuddled why, when logged in as root, my changes to the look and feel of the desktop(s), namely backgrounds, does not take. I can change the bsckground while in a KDE session but my changes disappear and revert back to the default "red exploding bomb" background when I logout and return. I've never experienced this with debian, mandrake or redhat.

Also, when trying to turn on the SuSE menus it doesn't take and all I get are the default KDE menus.

Any help appreciated.

Please, for your own sake, never work as root under X. So I learnt lately (nearly the same question was answered here last week) that it is a bug in SuSE I think it is fine that you cannot change the dekstop and all else. There is absolutely no reason to work as root under X. If you need root privileges you can su (or sux under SuSE) or use kdesu....

So please always log in as user, or your system will be as open and accessible as Windows.

Regards Chris

Just a small point about what you said: while I agree with what you said it is also true that "logging on" as root by using " su - root " in a normal user's console does NOT always result in something being done under the root privelege. I cannot come up with an exact instance, but I have come across a number of instances where doing this did not make what I wanted happen. What I had to do in these cases is to logon as root using the CTRL-ALT-F2 way. Cheers. -- In a period of great joy and pleasure you are comforted by the thought that tragedy is just around the corner.