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Idea #8289: A simple and elegant way to differenciate apps launched as root

Written by DanaKil the 9 May 08 at 16:50. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I have a simple and elegant solution to easily differentiate an application launched as root (Adept Manager, Nautilus, Konqueror, etc.) and an other one : I use the same color scheme for both users but I slightly colorize the "standart background" (the textedit/lineedit... background color) of the root color theme (salmon color for me).

This way, all my applications looks the same but I can immediately see which application is in root mode (and be carefull of what I do with them !)


I use KDE but I think this idea can apply to Gnome too.
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Written by DanaKil the 9 May 08 at 16:50.
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DanaKil wrote on the 9 May 08 at 17:06
Here is a screenshot of my desktop with this setting :

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7580/rootcolorsnapshotft3.jpg

(don't look at the dark windows colors if you don't like it, it's the white and salmon color which are important)

jhoger wrote on the 9 May 08 at 18:34
+1 LowHangingFruit ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7270/ )

Rioting_Pacifist wrote on the 10 May 08 at 00:40
Also changing the title would be useful

mambazo wrote on the 10 May 08 at 03:56
I've manually done this myself (assign a different theme / color scheme to the root user) so that I can tell which apps are running in root mode. I also like the idea of changing the title. Ubuntu should do both by default.

DanaKil wrote on the 10 May 08 at 11:39
@mambazon
" I also like the idea of changing the title."

why not but this may require more work whereas changing the color theme is really simple and efficient.

PeterKraus wrote on the 12 May 08 at 23:02
Nice.

Tuxoid wrote on the 12 May 08 at 23:07
This is a start, but I believe an emblem (say in the shape of a key), would be more obvious to new users

droetker wrote on the 18 Aug 08 at 06:57
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10293/ would be a possoble solution too.

samesame wrote on the 6 Oct 08 at 02:07
Another way:

* Using Shiki Colors:
1) Theme: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717
2) Icons: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562

Located in /home/user/.themes & /home/user/.icons

Result:

1) Normal user: Shiki-Human (orange theme) + gnome-human (orange icons)
2) Root user: Shiki-Wine (red theme) + gnome-wine

Type in /root as root:

root@ubuntu:~# ln -s /home/user/.themes/Shiki-Wine Shiki-Human

root@ubuntu:~# ln -s /home/user/.icons/gnome-wine gnome-human

The idea is to link in /root/.themes|.icons the desired theme but with the name of the current theme used by default user.

samesame wrote on the 6 Oct 08 at 02:14
well obviously

the "ln" commands are _wrong_. for theme, execute command in /root/.themes, and for icons execute command in /root/.icons folder, sorry


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