I was curious about this one myself. It was low on my priority list though. Thanks Derek. Thankyou thankyou thankyou.
Of course if that is not the only thing this little doohicky does someone better jump in real quick else it is and ex-program. Michael On Sat, 18 May 2002 10:36, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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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