[Klug-general] Baffled by Kubuntu

[Mike Rentell]

Thanks for the advice. Most useful. I could write a book - perhaps call 
it 'An Idiot's Guide ...' or something. The epithet seems to fit.
:-)

MikeR
in Folkestone

Peter Frost wrote:
> There's also kdesu for X apps - "kdesu kate" will load the Kate editor 
> with root privileges. I've been told that one shouldn't use regular 
> "sudo" for X applications but I'm not entirely sure of the reasoning 
> (seemed to work fine when I tried it).
> 
> Peter
> 
> Peter Apps wrote:
>> --Hi,
>>
>> I think youll find KDE4 is still under development and a lot of features
>> are still missing. KDE3 is the real stable version.
>>
>> Add sudo to commands like 'sudo passwd' or 'sudo sshfs.........' give
>> you root privileges and I use sudo -i to make me root user.
>>
>> Kubuntu does have a change user gui but it is loaded with one of the
>> extras packages.
>>
>> Regards, Peter.
> 
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