On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:53:46PM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > Thomas E. Vaughan wrote: > > > > I notice, however, that antialiasing doesn't work for me > > under KDE. Regardless of whether I select it, the > > antialias checkbox has unchecked itself whenever I > > return to the fonts page in the control center. > > > > Can anyone hit me with a cluebat? > > I've never figured out what causes this, but the fix is to > run: > > sudo chown -R <your_user> ~/.qt > > then you should be able to re-start kde and tell it to use > antialiasing.
You are right! ~/.qt was owned by root. I wonder if this is due to the fact that fink (and probably also the occasional OS X system app) runs sudo underneath, and sudo gives me root permission that lasts for a few minutes after each time I enter the password. Perhaps if I run an application during that window of root-permission opportunity (and if that application misbehaves?) then I can end up with a directory or set of files owned by root in my home directory. After I cleaned up ~/.qt, I noticed, for example, that ~/.qt was not the only file owned by root: $ cd ~ $ find . -user root ./.cvspass ./.octave_hist ./.povray ./.povray/3.6 ./.povray/3.6/povray.conf ./.povray/3.6/povray.ini ./Library/Favorites/Documents ./Music/GarageBand Demo Songs Yikes. I'm not impressed with OS X's user system, though perhaps that's just because I don't really know how it works. Would it be possible to set up an account called 'root' with root permission and with a home directory in '/root'? Then I could just 'su -' whenever I want to do something as the administrator. This has worked great for me over the past twelve years or so on my various linux boxen, but I am new to OS X. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
