Am 15.09.2011 19:32, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 09/13/2011 02:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> why you need something as root does nobody know except you
>> and would you explain us what is "screwy"?
>
> I'm guessing that he wants to use a GUI editor to tweak a file that
> requires root access
* sft
On 09/16/2011 04:42 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> He should be able to do that using sudo or by becoming root through su -
> Evidently that latter method does not work in KDE, which makes no sense
> to me.
The later method works perfectly well for me in KDEand always has.
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On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 10:32 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 02:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > why you need something as root does nobody know except you
> > and would you explain us what is "screwy"?
>
> I'm guessing that he wants to use a GUI editor to tweak a file that
> requires root a
On 09/13/2011 02:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> why you need something as root does nobody know except you
> and would you explain us what is "screwy"?
I'm guessing that he wants to use a GUI editor to tweak a file that
requires root access.
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On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:09 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 13.09.2011 22:26, schrieb Aaron Konstam:
>
> >> To run a GUI application as the root user with KDE you need to enter
> >> "kdesu kwrite", either from a konsole or krunner. You will then be
> >> required to enter the root password befo
Am 13.09.2011 22:26, schrieb Aaron Konstam:
>> To run a GUI application as the root user with KDE you need to enter
>> "kdesu kwrite", either from a konsole or krunner. You will then be
>> required to enter the root password before kwrite will start as a root
>> application.
>> Alt-F2 should b
On 09/14/2011 08:41 PM, Tim wrote:
> A "su" function for "kde"...
You don't need one. Fedora already has beesu to give you a GUI wrapper
around su.
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On 09/15/2011 11:41 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 15:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> Ok, I'll bite. What is kdesu and why does it have to run in this
>> context? Sounds screwy to me.
> A "su" function for "kde"... As to why is something special needed,
> rather than just "su -" in a ter
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 15:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Ok, I'll bite. What is kdesu and why does it have to run in this
> context? Sounds screwy to me.
A "su" function for "kde"... As to why is something special needed,
rather than just "su -" in a terminal, the the program name, as other
desk
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:09 -0700, mcforum wrote:
> > As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these
> >teething troubles don't discourage you.
>
> Teething Troubles--It's like climbing up a sand dune. This protecting me
> from
> myself is getting terribly frustrating.
`su -`gives root's $PATH and environment variables.
`su` (no hyphen!) gives root permissions but inherits $PATH and environment
variables.
You might want to give the latter a go.
On Sep 13, 2011 10:09 AM, "mcforum" wrote:
>> As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 07:16 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
> On 13/09/11 01:25, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> > As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware
> > simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've
> > connected to the Internet and now want to en
> As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these
>teething troubles don't discourage you.
Teething Troubles--It's like climbing up a sand dune. This protecting me from
myself is getting terribly frustrating. I want to do work not continually
chase
the user interface.
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 11:39 +0530, Digvijay Patankar wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Gerhard Magnus
> wrote:
> Something that used to be
> simple -- i.e. open Konsole, then as superuser,
> kwrite /etc/hosts & --
> doesn't work and instead delivers er
On 13/09/11 01:25, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware
> simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've
> connected to the Internet and now want to enter the names of IP
> addresses of my other boxes in /etc/hosts. Somet
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> Something that used to be
> simple -- i.e. open Konsole, then as superuser, kwrite /etc/hosts & --
> doesn't work and instead delivers error messages that make no sense to
> me, let alone give me anything to work with.
>
Have you tried
+ F
On 09/12/2011 10:47 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
> nearly unusable editors like vi or nano and the like.
I, OTOH, find nano exceptionally easy to use because the most common
commands are listed at the bottom of the screen, including ^G to get the
rest of them. Of course, I go back to when the CLI w
Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> open Konsole, then as superuser, kwrite /etc/hosts & --
I haven't tried all of that, but I use sudo kwrite /etc/somefile all the time
when I want to do some configuration. There are a lot of messages about
connecting to deprecated signal, application may misbehave, but a
On 09/12/2011 05:32 PM, Elliott Chapin wrote:
> vi should do it - elementary use is actually easy. Other editors are
> blocked in many environments.
Or, for those of us who neither know nor want to learn its arcane,
obfuscated syntax, you can use nano. All you need to know is that, as
used to b
On 09/12/2011 08:25 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware
> simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've
> connected to the Internet and now want to enter the names of IP
> addresses of my other boxes in /etc/hosts.
As a longtime gnome user, I've been disappointed in finding my hardware
simply can't handle gnome3 of FC15 and have switched to KDE. I've
connected to the Internet and now want to enter the names of IP
addresses of my other boxes in /etc/hosts. Something that used to be
simple -- i.e. open Konsole,
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