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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keith Abraham wrote: > My intention was not to do anything overly complex > (says he). > ie: > Wife phones me at lunch and asks me to configure > the Appearance section of Konqueror in her account > so that it's identical to mine. > > As altering the Konqueror config files by hand, from root, > is a complex business, I figure it's easier to to the config > from her account. Okay Konqueror is a particularly messy example, as it has some limited interaction with the KDE desktop (which we will ignore for now). The simple way is something like; Use xhost to give wife's account access to Keith's X client (man xhost) su - (become root requires password) su - wife (become wife, no password required for root) export DISPLAY=:0 (point X back to Keith's display - see man X) konqueror (run Konqueror as wife). With different values of DISPLAY this can work across a network, some tools exist to do the display variable setting automatically, the most useful of which is "ssh -X" (just drop your key in wifey's .ssh directory while you are there if you trust to keep your account secure. If wifey trusts you via ssh, the answer is "ssh -X wife@xxxxxxxxx ; konqueror", not efficient but simple. > (And save the wife's deluded > opinion of me as a computer expert!!) They only end up asking you to fix Windows, and that is a never ending task, Windows are too brittle. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+plFAGFXfHI9FVgYRAmZQAJkBApumGOv+vBsDF8CDJEWvxFyN6ACghO8a Xu+tD9wiYRa6XORYFErwZIE= =lZFc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.