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Thanks Simon. Been reading up on "su". Things are somewhat clearer now. As an aside wife like me only uses Windows for games (or so she tells me) Keith . On Wednesday 23 Apr 2003 8:39 am, Simon Waters wrote: > -----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----- -- SuSE 8.0 Linux on 1.2GHz AMD Athlon/PCChips 810LMR\nwith 384MB RAM and 20GB Maxtor HD using KDE's Kmail -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.