Quote Originally Posted by Robbyx View Post
I would like to think I had it working but I am not sure if I really have two versions now. As a starter could you suggest a way that I can tell what form of pcman has opened. I need to know if I am looking at the root version or the standard one. What would be ideal is if there was some header in pcman that said "Root is now being used"
I (inadvertently) have a way to distinguish GUIs when opened as root or as user

The gtk theme and icon theme and window theme I use are not system-wide and so when I open something such as synaptic or gedit or leafpad with gksudo, the window uses fallbacks which are visually very different from my themes.

I previously used to take the trouble of making logical links so that both GUIs (gksudo and normal) would look the same but now I don't.