Yes its annoying isn't it. Whats happening is this. KDE has an application called krootwarning setup to execute whenever a desktop starts up. It checks to see if the user has logged in as root, and if they have it will put up a banner telling them that logging in as root is a seriously bad idea.
If the user has not logged in as root, krootwarning will quietly exit, but it will leave the little hourglass sitting at the bottom of your screen for 30 seconds. To get rid of it delete /usr/share/autostart/krootwarning.desktop if you still want root to get the messages then move krootwarning.desktop to /root/.kde/Autostart derek On Friday 17 May 2002 11:20 pm, Charlie wrote: > Hello group; > > This has me puzzled. Not that puzzled is an odd occurrence for me but..... > > On a new install yesterday, (new hard drive to replace her dead 6 year old > one) MDK 8.2 download edition installed as easily as ever and configured as > easily as ever. Except for one minor thing; > > Every time the user logs (console login only, her preference) in, there is > 'krootwarning' spinning in the launch area of the task bar, and I can't > find a reason for it. She's not using root permissions on anything, (I > should know since I was there while she installed it) it's only a bleedin' > USER account. > > Stuck, bewildered, stymied, and lost in Edmonton and eagerly awaiting > someone's HELP. > > :-)
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