Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> pk wrote:
>>
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I hate to say it this way, but hal just plain sucks.  I may play with it
>>>> some later but I'm getting sick of hal big time.  It's starting to
>>>> really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Then you might like this:
>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009/Notes#head-75cccc4e4968dd043dcf2166dff61afd7d0d06c5
>>>
>>> I know I do... :-)
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Peter K
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I hope whatever replaces hal  is easier to configure.  Then again,
>> I can't really imagine it being any harder tho.  I haven't played with
>> it any since my last post.  I just don't feel like getting ticked off
>> right now.  Trying to play with hal tends to do that pretty quick.
>>
>> Right now, I'm in the new KDE 4.  Trying to let it grow on me a little.
>> It is getting better tho.  ;-)  I can tell they are working on it and
>> adding new stuff and fixing old stuff too.  I'm still trying to figure
>> out how to get a root Konsole tho.  All I see is a user one.  Oh well.
>>
>
> Alt-F2
> type "kdesu konsole" into the box
> press enter
>
> :)
>
> I believe the root konsole shortcut was removed from KDE4 because
> running entire sessions as root is discouraged in general... you can
> always add it to the menu if you miss it.
>
>
>

I'll give that a try.  I tend to restore a saved session anyway.  uhhhh,
I couldn't find the option to edit the menu like in KDE 3.  It used to
be in Applications then Settings.  The updating tool is there but not
the editing one. 

Dale

:-)  :-)