Re: 2 users, same settings, different results ??

[D-Man <dsh8290 rit edu>]

Possibly copying the config files from ~joe to ~root would fix this.

Or better yet, don't even bother logging in as root.  Always log in as 'joe'.  When you need to do something as root, run a gnome-terminal and in gnome-terminal type:

$ su root

or

$ su - root


The first will have the same environment (PATH, aliases, etc.) as 'joe' while the second will pick up root's environment instead.  'su' stands for "Switch User".  

-D


On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:54:50 mjbjr beaudesign com wrote:
> I have had a problem for some time, now, that continues to confound me...
> 
> There was a time, early on in RH6.1, where 'root' was running
> gnome/enlightenment and user 'joe' was running gnome/sawmill.  This was
> about a year ago.
> 
> Probably, one gnome update before helix came on the scene, I switched
> 'root' to gnome/sawmill.  Now, after several helix gnome/sawfish updates,
> including tonight's, I continue to have a problem...
> 
> Even though, both 'root' and 'joe' are running the same gnome control
> center program/version, the same sawfish version, and the same theme, 
> 'gcc' doesn't always show/offer the same choices in a sub-section for both
> users.  Both 'root' and 'joe' are running at the 'expert' choices level.
> 
> 'joe' has the setup that I'm trying to match for 'root', and when I go
> through 'gcc' for both at the same time I can't always match them in a
> couple of places due to different choices.
> 
> In both, a window selected on "mouse enter" does NOT automatically move to
> the top layer.  For 'joe', clicking on a window title bar with the right
> mouse button moves a window from the top layer to the bottom layer and
> vice versa, which I prefer.  While for 'root', clicking on a window title
> bar with the right mouse button brings up a menu from which a 'root' needs
> to select from a sub-menu to move the window from top to bottom layers and
> vice versa.  This really bugs me.  Fortunately, I don't start an
> Xserver for 'root' that often.
> 
> This has been going on for some time, now.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea on what's happening, and how I can get the
> setups for 'root' to match 'joe's?
> 
> Thank you.
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