On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Bijoy Thomas wrote: >Hello, > > I have a PIII system with RedHat Linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4) >installed. Till now i had no problems whatsoever with Linux. I always >login as root.My graphics display on Linux has been working fine and >I've worked in almost all the desktop >environments(GNOME,KDE,Enlightenment).Yesterday on entering KDE i found >that the icons floppy,cdrom and Trash were displayed on the top >lefthand corner of the screen. They had been there everytime but >yesterday i decided to get rid of them. I right clicked on the Desktop >and selected Configure Desktop and then changed the Desktop path to >/root/empty (an empty directory). Everything went fine until the next >time i entered KDE the icons were there again. Just for fun i changed >the Desktop path to /root and found that everything under /root got
<snip> This means that you must be logging in and running X as root. This is explicitly something that you are warned against doing. Every version of Red Hat that I can remember posts a message on the screen telling you that this is a bad thing to do. The answer to your question can be found by searching the archives of this mail group at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86&r=1&b=200302&w=2 Hope this helps, Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
