[CUBE] American Keyboard

miln miln at wanadoo.fr
Tue Apr 1 04:30:40 PST 2003


I boot as "me" user then I connected with su- changed system pref., quit the
terminal, reboot as "me" user and still nothing changed, the american
keyboard is back again!

> On 2003-04-01 11:45, miln wrote:
> 
>>> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 04:53 PM, miln wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Does anybody know how to log in as root in the terminal?
>>> 
>>> Welcome to Darwin!
>>> [cube:~] brooks% su -
>>> Password:
>>> [cube:~] root#
> 
> I would recommend 'sudo -s" instead, since it doesn't require enabling the
> root account, but that's a minor point.
> 
>> Now that I know how to connect as root I tried to change my keyboard language
>> to french in the international pane but when I boot again the american Flag
>> is
>> here again... What is the exact procedure after loging in as root? Should I
>> also log out? How?
> 
> Su-ing to root in the Terminal, doesn't mean that you are logged in as root
> in any other apps. So when you su to root and then open System Preferences,
> you still start System Preferences as yourself.
> 
> Besides, if you were to change the keyboard setting for the root account,
> you would change it only for that account, not your own.
> 
> ,xtG
> .tsooJ



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