You can chown all files to your new user, after you copy them. [/quote]

this command does not work invalid arguements

You already got your reply here: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7628#p7628
That wasn't a funny post.

Get it inside your head: running as root is stupid, reckless and dangerous. You think that you know everything, but you don't. Yeah, it has been debated at length that running the ...

chown could easily be added to my top command list that, i have re-edited my last post as it came back in one long quote, lol my sections are now blue

I do have a partition left over from a previous install, so how would one mount that for permanent use as /home
Just add an entry to your /etc/fstab. Mine is:
/dev/sda3 /home xfs defaults 1 2

ok seems simple even but now so that i can ensure that i understand the command fully the xfs is im ...

True but I'm sure you see my point.

Edit: That said if your running as root your just one foolish / away from disaster. In fact you could issue the command relatively as rm -rf . and nuke everything if you forgot you were at the root of the tree. It's happened, I'm sure. Never underestimate human ...

not exactly "sheer laziness" more that i have recently moved from "babysitting" distro's like ubuntu etc
an i have been constantly editing this, adding that, in order to learn an progress with linux an the only experience i have of mounting is small partitions used as "safe" storage areas for use ...

who's foolish enough to run that though removing the main partition, lol

gapan wrote:

try-alls wrote:doesn't xfce already use fvwm as it's window manager i.e. extract a xfce theme an you will find a gtk folder an a fvwm folder

xfce uses xfwm, not fvwm.

ah, cool so what's better?

doesn't xfce already use fvwm as it's window manager i.e. extract a xfce theme an you will find a gtk folder an a fvwm folder

how is working as root bad? if you know what files you can delete/edit etc an your system still works as is or better since editing certain files, typing a password in every time you need to "work on your pc" s a hinderence that lost windows so many customers. also please enable root login via gdm ...