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Werner

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Registered: 2020-08-13

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Different theme/icons for sudo/root user – which settings are working?

If I run
$ sudo xfce4-appearance-settings
it does work properly. It sets the new theme for root user in
/root/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml

But these setting do not have any effect. If I open thunar with sudo, the normal user theme still appears.

XFCE 4.14 on FuryBSD,
Icons and themes are in /usr/local/share (standard in FreeBSD).

I have checked this in Refracta-10 too (Devuan-3 with xfce 4.12) and have got the same problem.

Last edited by Werner (2020-08-13 09:46:44)

Werner

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Registered: 2020-08-13

Posts: 2

Re: Different theme/icons for sudo/root user – which settings are working?

I could not find a way to control the theme/icons for sudo/root user.

The only option seems to be:
Make sure, that root has no access to the user theme/icons –> move them to different folders in /usr/share/ and create links from the user directory to these folders.

Then windows with root permissions will be shown with the xfce default theme and icons, probably Adwaita and Clearlooks.

Last edited by Werner (2020-08-28 08:56:48)