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aljustiet

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Registered: 2024-02-09

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How do I change the theme for the root user?

I tried changing it with nwg-look and dconf-editor, but it changes back after I changed it.

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: How do I change the theme for the root user?

Am I to understand you are trying to run Gnome as root?  Or are you using something that gives you elevated privilege when you run a specified program?

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aljustiet

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Registered: 2024-02-09

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Re: How do I change the theme for the root user?

Am I to understand you are trying to run Gnome as root?  Or are you using something that gives you elevated privilege when you run a specified program?

I want to run thinkfan-iu with the Arc-dark theme, but when I run it as a normal user, it asks for a password every time I change the fan speed, like here: . But when I run it as root, it opens with the default Adwaita theme.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: How do I change the theme for the root user?

First off all this is a Qt application.
Secondly do not run GUI stuff as root. EVER.

Fix the access rights to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udev#A … se_devices

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