I installed the link to: "kdesu" and I found that a desktop fine that
used it doesn't work. The file had:
Exec=kdesu -c "konqueror --profile filemanagement /" --caption "SU Root KFM"
{that is one line}
Instead of Konqueror, I get a window titled: "Konqueror - The KDE Crash
Handler" reporting that Konqueror crashed. So KDESU must have worked
and called Konqueror, but not correctly as it immediately crashed.
Since I had previously fixed the bug in KDESU that prevented it from
working, I was a bit disappointed. :-(
Could this be something that I am doing differently? Before I finished
building KDE, I was using TWM with X11 and I noticed while running as my
user account, I opened an Xterm, did: "su -" and attempted to open
konqueror that it crashed with a message that I had to first enter an
instruction to so that D-Bus was running. So, I followed the
instructions in Beyond Linux From Scratch to have BASH start and stop
D-Bus with the profile and logout scripts -- something I had not done in
my previous installation. That cured that problem.
I also note that this hack:
Exec=kdesu -c 'bash -l -c "konqueror --profile filemanagement /"'
--caption "SU Root KFM"
{again, this is one line}
makes my desktop file open Konqueror as root with the "filemanagement"
profile and the "/" directory just fine. However, if this isn't
specific to my system and how I am handling starting D-Bus, it appears
that this hack is a work around for a bug and that KDESU should check to
see if D-BUS is running and if it isn't, it should start it before
calling the application that is to be opened.
I also note that the: startkde script fails to detect that D-Bus is
running and there are two of them running. But, that is a minor bug.
--
James Tyrer
Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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James Tyrer
Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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