Make Your Root Windows Pretty

When modfying your system theme the changes often do not apply to the root account. When running programs as the super user (sudo) the window theme looks likea very ugly Windows 95 clone. With two lines of code we are going to link your user and root themes so they match, and bring back the pretty in Ubuntu.

- Notice the Windows 98 feel to these root menus





In a terminal type:

sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes

sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons

- Now when you run programs as the super user they match the system theme.




and as synthetic098 pointed out:
In a terminal type:
sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts
- to symbolically link your fonts to the root fonts

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