On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 11:45, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:48:12 -0400 > alex <radsky@ncia.net> wrote: > > > > Personally, I have a trick to make sure that I can identify anything I > > > run that has been spawned as root rather than as me - the Xresources, > > > KDE interface, and Gnome settings for root are all set to have garishly > > > obvious colours, so that I know that mistakes with those programs could > > > be toxic. > > > > > > Somewhat outside the thread but this sounds like a good idea....could > > you describe this 'trick' please? > > Log in as root. startx (if you're not already there). Set the desktop to > solid bright red. > > Open a terminal window. Set the colors for the terminal window to something > very different from your normal colors. My normal xterm is black on light > yellow, so for me "very different" might be the default grey on black. > > The color scheme is a reminder that I'm running X as root. > > Kevin Yes, and in addition, when you run something as root from within a regular session (via sudo, or something similiar,) for non-QT/non-GTK applications, the Xresources from root should be drawn upon, also making them stand out. My favourite trick is using the Gnome Modern theme - looks like Mozilla default, but even less legible. The effort to read the application ensures that I don't do anything stupid too quickly - I can do stupid things still, but not so fast so that likely I can exhaust the brain fart before disaster is total. ;) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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