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Tell apart the root finder from the normal finder
Authored by: thelamecamel on Nov 03, '04 08:22:37PM
If you're going to do this, I recommend having a different appearance for the root finder windows, i.e. having graphite close buttons and sliders rather than the red, amber, green aqua ones (or vice versa). Then you'll know at a glance which windows belong to root, and which belong to you. The simplest way, as shown in the comments to this hint is to enter in a Terminal window
 sudo /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences 
which will open System Preferences as root, then click the General button and change the "Appearance" option to whatever you don't use. (while you're in there you could also change default keyboard layouts, etc if that's your kind of thing)

Then any window which can do the bad stuff will appear in the graphite scheme, not the aqua scheme (or vice versa)

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