Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>> Dale writes:
>>>
>>>> Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know
>>>> it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in
>>>> KDE3.
>>> It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and
>>> after
>>> becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X
>>> applications.
>>>
>>> I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past
>>> I also
>>> had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I
>>> don't know.
>>>
>>> Workarounds you might try:
>>> - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past.
>>> - ssh -Y root@localhost
>>>
>>> Wonko
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password.
>
> Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special
> icon intended to open a root terminal?  Must be, otherwise it wouldn't
> ask for the root password.
>
> Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead.  (Or even,
> heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.)  That should detect a KDE
> problem if it exists.
>

The way I did was this.  The entry you have but I edited it to run as 
root when it is clicked on.  I have a couple things that are set that 
way.  Kbackup is set that way.  It can't access some files I want to 
backup if it is set to run as a user.  You can edit this by clicking the 
advanced tab in the menu editor.  I also have konqueror set as my file 
manager and it is set to run as root.  It is running on another desktop 
right now.  It works fine.  I can run Kbackup, as root, and it connects 
just fine.  I just tried it to make sure.  Since I can go to my /root 
directory, I know it is running as root.

Weird things always happen to me.  Why can't something weird like 
winning the lottery happen to me?  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)