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hello again

in KDE you can change your desktop theme for both root and your account

but in in this version and the previous one ... this is impossible for ROOT

because it will be stuck with the default one .. which mean it will be stuck with OXYGEN

can anyone help me here ..... please ?

there is no problem in root account

the problem is after using

SU -

to get permession to open systemsetting by root while using USER account

To change the theme, wallpaper, etc for root I believe you have to actually log in as root at the login screen.
I mean in ALL of the past 12 to 15 distros I have worked with, that is how I have always had to do it.
In fact, it is the only way. Since linux stores those kind of settings on a per user basis.

So, log in as root, and then change the themes, wallpapers, etc. and then log out.

Now, I do not condone logging in as root usually, but I also feel that in those very rare times when you must do so, why shouldn't the screen look like YOU want it to. I always make sure that my user account "llok" is specific to me, and the root accounts "look" is VERY distinct, just so "on sight" if you are in root or user.

Just please remember to log out of root after the changes. So far, I have yet to "customize" my root account in Mageia 4, but I shall soon be doing so. I like making the system truly mine.

Have a good one.

When are those "very rare times" when you must log on as root in KDE,and why? I've never needed then, in nearly 10 years ...

doktor5000 wrote:When are those "very rare times" when you must log on as root in KDE,and why? I've never needed then, in nearly 10 years ...

In a couple of the distros I have tested off and on prior to Mageia, and also prior to learning about krusader and it having that wonderful twinning ability (krusader and krusader root), and because I have used several distros, some have su, some have sudo, and I can't remember obe weird distro it was some really odd thing, I simpley got VERY tired of when I need to access certain file commander items (like gaining access to remove a couple of very NOT needed items that got placed in the root world) I just decided to log on as root and run the file commander in whatever distro, and get what I needed done.done.
I then logged out and then back in under my user acct.
I only user root when I must (for maintenance that just plain becomes aggravating with all the different variants of how to become root on a temporary basis).
SIDE NOTE:
I was even talking to several of my friends about that, and the one whom have even tried linux said that was the MOST annoying part. NO standardization on command structure for certain key elements. Perhaps that is why most of them have stayed strictly Windows since that time. Me I don't mind experimenting...BUT, it does get very annoying to constantly have to learn one way to be temp root, then next distro, that one don't work and you have to learn ANOTHER way to do it. etc.

Well, only learn it properly one time, there's no magic to it.
Classic way is su (switch user). Existent on every distro, and on most unices too.
sudo is also present on each distro, but on most it has to be configured first. Problem is that *buntu users get accustomed to the weird way that the root account is handled on their OS, and so they assume this is the same on all distros - whereas it's only a weird trick and disregarded by the rest of the linux community.

For commands, there's always what is called POSIX, and also the GNU tools - those commands exist on each linux distro. E.g. everything contained in coreutils and many others.

cyber-dragon-14 wrote:BUT, it does get very annoying to constantly have to learn one way to be temp root, then next distro, that one don't work and you have to learn ANOTHER way to do it. etc.

The Root account password is locked in *Ubuntus.
To unlock that account (i.e. set a password) use:

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sudo passwd root

After that SU command works as it should.
And by the way, Ubuntu is the only exception to the rule.

regards, Mika