On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:16, Philipp Thomas wrote:
Radule Soskic
[26 Oct 2002 23:40:21 +0200]: Root user's Panel applets in my 8.0 pro disappear at random on startup - either all or just part of them. Then I have to add them manually each time it happens.
<soapbox> First of all, please be advised that you should *not* start X as user root as the risks of severely damaging your system are very high. You should login as normal user and only switch to root where needed. </soapbox> Thank you for this advice. In fact, I already have heard about this earlier several times. Now, could you please make it more clear: is it just because root user's unlimited power (so if he makes mistake it can be a disaster) or there are other risks too? If so - what are these risks? Actually, I log in as root very often, since I am the only user on this machine, so I definitely would want to know more...TIA
Having said that, I'd recommend searching our support database. AFAIR, there is an article that deals with this problem. If that's not the case, try contacting our feedback team at http://www.suse.de/feedback I searched the articles before I posted my message. There I could not find any articles about this problem. I searched for words "applet", "panel" and such, but nothing there.
rms