[Lazarus] Help! Linux custom saved theme sharing. How?!?

[waldo kitty]

peter, please... the lazarus mailing list is not the place to seek assistance 
and support for your OS configuration or theme problems... while there are 
several who can/may offer assistance, it is definitely off topic for the list...

i'm not trying to be ugly or an arse and i have thought to possibly help you or 
offer suggestions but... the list is not the proper venue for it... surely there 
is a support forum that is specific to the flavor of linux you are running??

no, i'm not a moderator or admin or anything else like that in the lazarus 
list.. i am but a humble user of lazarus and fpc... however, i just felt that 
this should be pointed out to you... it is like folk calling their ISP's tech 
support for assistance with m$ office problems... wrong place for it...

sorry :?

On 3/13/2010 00:41, Peter Williams wrote:
> G'day Everybody,
>
> Hi All,
>
> How is everyone this fine Tasmania, sunny Autumn day? That's you nice
> Americans call 'Fall'  ;-)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn
>
> Anyway, it was not my intention to discuss the weather, apart from to
> tell you that it's a beautiful, sunny day here in West Hobart.
>
> ---
>
> I've been, as you'd probably gather from my previous post (?) ---
> trying with some success, to refine the way my computer looks, and the
> user  / admin works.
>
> I've been use Linux Mandriva 2010 's GNOME Applications>  Accessories
>> gtk-chtheme ... the gtk theme application.
>
> This is quite new to me. Sorry, if any non-Linux users are reading
> this and don't like it.
>
> Anyway, I have the following user accounts on this system:
>
> 1) root - an admin user with an admin password
>
> 2) peter - a peterericwilliams user with user password. This is the
> user who I used to install the Mandriva OS on this computer.
>
> 3) a guest user - not sure about password.
>
> I can log in as root and choose different themes, customize them&
> save them as new themes. In fact I have created 3 new themes as the
> root user.
>
> Also I can do the same thing, but logging in a peter&  saving my
> customized themes as the peter user.  My peter user has 3 themes saved
> (different names and theme details to the admin user's themes).
>
> So far, so good. ;) But the thing that I don't understand is how I can
> get my 3 saved custom admin's themes and 3 different saved custom
> peter's themes and make all 6 themes available to all users. ;-(((
>
> I've tried copying the theme files, copy the .theme hidden files,
> changing the permission changing the owner, changing the access
> rights....!!! Nothing seems to make all 6 themes from the admin&
> peter user visible to either one. ;((( !!!
>
> At the moment the admin sees his 3 themes, and peter sees his 3
> themes... and I don't know how to change that. ;-)))
>
> Can someone who knows how this is *supposed* to be done, in a Linux
> system using GNOME please tell me what utility programs are available
> to fix this. I'm really getting sick of trying to tweak
> owner/permission rights/privileges -- and I don't really know what I'm
> doing. ;-!!!(
>
> I must admit that although I've been using Linux (of different types)
> for several years ... this is owning recently that I've not until now,
> known enough to set up and properly used different user and root users
> AND had it working correctly.
>
> { Not to mention that my health is largely improving, with the thanks
> of GOOD doctor's&  very good modern prescription medications!  }
>
> Well! My computer is almost ...almost okay! #SMILE# At least I am
> *trying* to correctly configure my system.
>
> Hey, Lazarus developers&  users... I figure that it would be pretty
> irresponsible of me to start trying to test and/or use Lazarus/FPC
> patches, without at least having my system as close a possible to
> correctly configured with the correct user right/privileges etc.
>
> In other words, I want to do the right thing (both to myself and to
> others show may share my code/patch-suggestions) and get my system
> okay-dokey. ;-)))
>
> Suggestions, anyone ?!?!? ;)
>
> Luv PEW
> X
>
> Fond Regards and Best Wishes,
>      PEW { Peter Eric Williams }
> from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
>
> My free website:
> http://pewink.org  (&)
>
> http://pewslinuxvault.googlepages.com
>
> (redirects to: http://sites.google.com/site/pewslinuxvault/ )
>
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