Re: different color for root

[Kevin Rodgers]

Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> I have two different '.emacs' for me and 'root'; mainly just a change in the
> background-color. But starting Emacs for root under xfree does have the same
> color as starting it for me (user). Even uncommenting 'ecb' for root does not
> have any affect, it still loads.
> What do I do wrong?

How are you "starting Emacs for root under xfree"?  I will guess that
you're logged in as yourself, running a shell in an xterm, and then use
su to become root before starting emacs.  In that case, root is the
effective user but you are still the real user.  I think you can solve
your problem by using `su -` so that root is the real user, or by
starting Emacs as `emacs -u root` to load it's .emacs file.

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Kevin Rodgers