This thread has been quite bouncy. One problem is the “no need to provide a password for the root user at login during the install process”. A previous post of mine proved it does influence “after installation, usability failures for the root user”.
Okay, here’s a quick example about the font | rendering thing. I’m using my regular Leap 16 install (since Beta), where as a matter of habit, I provided a root login during installation. (I’ve deleted the test Leap 16 I installed without defining root config, to test for this thread).
The first screenshot … I launched Myrlyn (root choice) from the KDE Plasma menu (yes, you have to enter the root password). Yuck (to me). No dark mode, etc.
Okay, the second screenshot … I launched from a konsole, as my user, using “sudo -E myrlyn” (then the root password). Notice that it matches my Dark Mode, and the fonts (larger) match my user settings (why I used “-E”, so it inherits my profile settings).
So, for me personally, it’s a pain to have to “configure the root user account to match what you prefer”, because I’ve already done that for my user, and I can pass that on to root activities.
Default from KDE menu
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Using “sudo -E myrlyn”:
