Dual boot Pclinuxos Full Monty stealing files from Mageia

[stuckinbama]

I have 3 EXT4 partitions and 1 swap. I have Mageia on partition 1 and Pclinuxos FM on 2 and number 3 is a community /Home.
All systems are KDE.
It seems many things are shared between the two distros even tho they should be seperate.
PCLOS has 6 activity panels (Internet, Graphics, Writing etc) with the dual boot they are missing. In fact it looks like the Mageia theme is applied instead.

Do I need to install PCLOS first? Use seperate /Home?


Thanks
Rick

[doktor5000]

Like with any other linux distro, you will share all user-settings with a common /home.
Either use separate /home partitions, or a separate user.

[stuckinbama]

doktor5000 Thanks for the reply. It's true I used the same name for both user accounts. Can I just make a new user in either OS and solve this? I just installed PCLOS so it's no loss except time to re-install. I am missing some features in PCLOS so I guess I better plan a re-install.
How does separate users help this problem?

Rick

[jkerr82508]

How does separate users help this problem?

The number of activities, the theme etc are per user settings. Each user can set these to their personal preference, even within a single system. For KDE they are saved in /home/username/.kde4 where "username" is the name of the particular user, for example /home/rick1/.kde4. If you set up a second user "rick2", then that user's KDE preferences will be saved in /home/rick2/.kde4.

The two users should have different user id's, (possibly 500 and 501) but in order to facilitate sharing data between them it may be useful to have them belong to the same group, perhaps the rick1 group. Take a look at MCC -> System -> Manage Users:
https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/3/en/content/userdrake.html

Jim

[stuckinbama]

It worked great!
Problem is I can't access users data from other users ( I have several). Not a huge deal but has required rebooting several times already.

[jkerr82508]

Each user has to give permission for other users (either all users or only other users in the same group) to access their files. When logged in as the folder owner, in dolphin (or other file manager) right-click on the folder in question and select properties and then the permissions tab. (This can, of course, be done from the CLI using the chmod command.)

Jim

[jiml8]

Easiest way is to create a new group, called, perhaps, "myusers". Add all your user accounts to the group myusers, then give all members of myusers full access to each other's files in the group permissions.

Then chown all files in all directories (and the directories themselves) to username:myusers, where username is the user name of the particular /home/ directory for that user. This can be accomplished (on a per-home-directory basis) with one line:

chown -R username:myusers *