On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 23:22, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone :) > I'm the guy that reported that "really wierd problem" where, when I was > logged in as a regular user in KDE, I somehow ended up with root's GNOME > desktop. Well, now I figured out how to reproduce it :) It goes like > this: > > 1. Log into KDE as a regular user, or root, it doesn't matter. The > important part is that you log into KDE. > 2. Type "nautilus" in a terminal window, (I haven't tested this part, > but I suspect that you could start nautilus any way you wanted) > 3. Watch you KDE desktop turn into a GNOME desktop. > > The only reason why it went from my desktop to the root desktop in my > last report, was because I opened Nautilus when I was su'd into root. > But obviously, just running a GNOME application, and having it turn your > KDE desktop into a GNOME desktop, was not the intention of Red Hat. I > tried this the other way around, and opened Konqueror while I was logged > into GNOME, and nothing unusual happened :) > If I can undestand the process, I'm going to report this on Bugzilla, > but I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem, and if you > did, what you may have done to fix it :) > > Thanks in advance for your help :) > Steven P. Ulrick > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > Wow! That's a pretty neat trick! Not only does it switch your desktop from KDE to Gnumb, but, it switches to the desktop of whichever user (root or otherwise) that you are su'd to! (How secure!) Are you gonna Bugzilla it? Confirming the issue, stevep
