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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:49:27
Message-Id: 58965d8a0910091349p5d1cf37er98abf7e3e040e8f7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED] by Dale
1 On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > pk wrote:
3 >> Dale wrote:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>> I hate to say it this way, but hal just plain sucks. I may play with it
7 >>> some later but I'm getting sick of hal big time. It's starting to
8 >>> really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
9 >>>
10 >>
11 >> Then you might like this:
12 >> http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009/Notes#head-75cccc4e4968dd043dcf2166dff61afd7d0d06c5
13 >>
14 >> I know I do... :-)
15 >>
16 >> Best regards
17 >>
18 >> Peter K
19 >>
20 >>
21 >>
22 >
23 > Well, I hope whatever replaces hal is easier to configure. Then again,
24 > I can't really imagine it being any harder tho. I haven't played with
25 > it any since my last post. I just don't feel like getting ticked off
26 > right now. Trying to play with hal tends to do that pretty quick.
27 >
28 > Right now, I'm in the new KDE 4. Trying to let it grow on me a little.
29 > It is getting better tho. ;-) I can tell they are working on it and
30 > adding new stuff and fixing old stuff too. I'm still trying to figure
31 > out how to get a root Konsole tho. All I see is a user one. Oh well.
32
33 Alt-F2
34 type "kdesu konsole" into the box
35 press enter
36
37 :)
38
39 I believe the root konsole shortcut was removed from KDE4 because
40 running entire sessions as root is discouraged in general... you can
41 always add it to the menu if you miss it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED] Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>