Unable to default yast2 to QT interface

boomtopper · July 3, 2011, 4:55pm

Ok thanks guys so they are both QT but with different looks.

here is how it looks loaded from the KDE launcher
http://i.imgur.com/uOyFX.png

And this is how it looks after:-


su
/sbin/yast2

http://i.imgur.com/XL9zD.png

So is it possible to get it looking like the second one via launching from the KDE launcher?

martin_helm · July 3, 2011, 5:04pm

Just increase the size of the window with the mouse until it switches to show two columns. Maybe I do now not really understand why the different default appearance seems to be a problem.

boomtopper · July 3, 2011, 5:11pm

True it’s not the worst problem ever but it’s nice to have consistency.
It seems that yast is using the Plastique look when it would be nice if it used the same as what what is under Application Appearance->Style.

gogalthorp · July 3, 2011, 5:39pm

It is using the settings in /root. Your settings are your settings root’s settings is root’s settings. When you run a GUI app under root it uses the settings in /root.

Settings are user specific not system specific.

martin_helm · July 3, 2011, 5:46pm

boomtopper wrote:

>
> True it’s not the worst problem ever but it’s nice to have consistency.
> It seems that yast is using the Plastique look when it would be nice if
> it used the same as what what is under Application Appearance->Style.
>
For that you need to set that same appearance for the root account as you
have for your normal user. You should be able do that as a normal user the
following way, open a terminal and run


kdesu systemsettings

to access the kde system settings for the root account.

boomtopper · July 3, 2011, 7:14pm

Ok I worked out how to fix it.
I tried the command above to access system settings as root but it came up with a error message about it not being writable (Can’t remember it off the top of my head). After that error message it did display the system settings window with the plastique theme but any changes I made had no affect.
So a bit of googling about and I found I could run


kdesu qtconfig

Then in there I can force the GUI style to oxygen.

Many thanks everyone for your help. I look forward to finding and trying more things with openSUSE.

martin_helm · July 3, 2011, 7:58pm

boomtopper wrote:
> I tried the command above to access system settings as root but it came
> up with a error message about it not being writable
That is strange, I use it (kdesu systemsettings) myself to change the colors
(I prefer seeing applications running as root with a red color scheme). But
I am now not sure when I did it first if I had to create some config file
first?
But glad to see you solved it with qtconfig.

boomtopper · July 3, 2011, 8:27pm

Well it only gives that message on the first time I try the kdesu systemsettings then the subsequent tries it doesn’t say.
I can recreate it again if I:-


sudo rm -r /root
sudo mkdir /root
sudo chown root /root

and then try to access the system settings as root again.

The message that it gives is “setting file “/root/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc” isn’t writeable Contact the system administrator” A google about this show that a bughas been logged for this.

martin_helm · July 3, 2011, 8:07pm

martin_helm wrote:
> But I am now not sure when I did it first if I had to create some
> config file first?
>
Just to be complete (if someone ever wants to use the “kdesu
systemsettings”), I had to create an empty folder /root/.kde4/share/config
first, so that it can create the configuration files in that.

hcvv · July 3, 2011, 8:44pm

boomtopper:

Well it only gives that message on the first time I try the kdesu systemsettings then the subsequent tries it doesn’t say.
I can recreate it again if I:-
sudo rm -r /root
sudo mkdir /root
sudo chown root /root
and then try to access the system settings as root again.

The message that it gives is “setting file “/root/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc” isn’t writeable Contact the system administrator” A google about this show that a bughas been logged for this.

PLEASE to everybody,

Do not do this lightely! You will remove everything that is in /root. And there can be important things there!

martin_helm · July 3, 2011, 9:25pm

hcvv wrote:
> PLEASE to everybody,
>
> Do not do this lightely! You will remove everything that is in /root.
> And there can be important things there!
>
It would have been enough to simply rename the .kde4 located in /root to
something else instead of deleting the complete /root.