On 13 Oct 2002 23:34:00 -0400 Steve Phillips <stevep@lnxrules.com> wrote: > 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 :) > > > > 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 > Just got done reporting it. You can keep track of the progress on this bug at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75856 Steven P. Ulrick
