John Pilkington wrote: > Ryan Rix wrote: >> On Fri 22 January 2010 12:19:08 pm John Pilkington wrote: >>> Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> On Friday 22 January 2010 19:40:15 John Pilkington wrote: >>>>> Rex Dieter wrote: >>>>>> On 01/22/2010 01:08 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >>>>>>> In kde 3.5 Konqueror - specifically in CentOS_5 - the background >>>>>>> colour could be set to indicate who owned the window. >>>>>> Really? How? >>>>>> >>>>>> -- Rex >>>>> View > Configure Background, File Manager profile, 3.5.10-2.el5 >>>>> >>>>> I've only tried it with one user and root, but the backgrounds show >>>>> who's who. >>>> I set coloured text for Root - anything I do as root is then obvious to >>>> me - I can't forget! ;-) >>> I'd be happy with that, but hadn't found a way of doing it, or of >>> setting the default View Profile. Is it a 'custom font?' I'm looking >>> at f10 at present, but limited exploration in f12 has drawn blanks too. >>> >>> John P >> Run ``systemsettings'' as root and configure it to use a different text color. >> Then that applies to all KDE apps run as root. >> >> Ryan > > Thanks for suggesting this, but when I tried it from a root Konsole it > just sat waiting for unspecified input. Perhaps I'll wait for 4.4 > > ?? http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151669#c117 > > John P OK: $ kdesu systemsettings did it. I've changed the window text colour for root, which should provide an alert. Thanks to all. John P
