Themes ony work as root ?

[James McDonald]

When things work as root but fail as a standard user. This usually means
that the user account cannot update settings files which may be owned by
root or in a location where standard users cannot write to.

I tend to to first make sure that everything in the home directory of the
user account having the diffuculty is owned by the correct user by running
the following as root.

chown username:username /home/username -Rv

Then I locate any global settings files that are failing to be written by
calling the configuration utility with strace.
i.e.

strace config_util | tee myout

The output of strace as captured in myout will show all locations that the
configuration utility is attempting to write to.

If this doesn't show any thing or you can't decipher the output of strace
do a web search for the particular configuration files associated with the
settings you are attempting to change and then give your standard user
write permissions to them.



HTH.

James


> Hi,
>
> I may have had a similar problem (I even couldn't set colors for panel
> plugins).
>
> I found out that this was due to the presence of ~/.gtkrc-2.0, probalbly
> set  by another WM/Desktop.
> I got rid of it and things started to work.
>
> Cheers,
> Roger.
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 03:28 pm, Dan Gordon wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:02:41 -0400
>>
>> Dan Gordon <dgordon8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> > I will ask this question again in a diferent way.
>> > It seems I can only change themes as root, any user can not do this.
>> I have read the archives and FAQ and how to's and searched and still
>> can not find any answer. Can someone please steer me in the right
>> direction to solve this problem ?
>> > Any help will be apreaciated, TIA.
>>
>> Sorry im runing Mandrake 9.1 and xfce rc4
>> Everything but changing themes works exept as root it works as root.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan Gordon
>
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James McDonald
Systems Engineer

Singleton NSW Australia