Re: garnome system-wide

[Patrick Morris <pmorris wilshire com>]

You basically have two choices:

1) Screw up your permissions to /root and make it totally insecure, or
2) Rebuild Garnome properly so it installs itself where you want it.

rolf deenen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I installed garnome 0.27.1 as root. It was an accident. I was fiddling around 
> with garnome  and all of a sudden it started ;-)  . Anyhow, i thought: well 
> now it is running i better leave it this way; i can always move it. Now it is 
> ready and runs as root (I love it!). So i decided to move it to 
> /opt/gnome2.4. But it won't run as another user. X boots and i even get an 
> gnom-dialog but it is empty with only an "ok" button. Switching back to the 
> console (crtl-alt-f2) it displays a lot of errors. All regarding (as far as i 
> can see) to gconf. There are pointers in gconfs configuratio which point to 
> /root/garnome. Is there a way to fix it? (The pointers exist in a lot of 
> config files and changing all "/root/garnome" to "/opt/gnome2.4" would be 
> madness.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> rolf 
>
>  


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