[Sussex] Ubuntu, KDE and Synaptic

[Geoffrey Teale]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:30 +0000, Angelo Servini wrote:
> Questions:
>         Will Synaptic run under KDE.  If not, ees a no bigga deal.

Yes of course it will.  So long as all the support libs (gtk, etc) are
installed it's not a problem.  Actually it's usually only KDE apps that
won't run outside of KDE (because of the ludicrous DCOP), but that's
getting better - especially as DBUS supersedes both DCOP in KDE and
CORBA in GNOME.

>          
>         If I mark packages for download/Installation
>          
>         Will apt-get recognise that they have been marked, when I call
>         it via cron

No.. that information is lost when you close synaptic.

>         What is the syntax to call it under cron?  (I know man xxxxxx,
>         is easier for you.  But a human readable answer would be
>         preferable :D )

Haven't got time to write this out right now, sorry.

>         KDE seems to run a different process as gnome does, to pass on
>         the users password and as there is no root only sudo, I cannot
>         start windowed processes such as Konsole directly as root.  Is
>         there a way to overcome this?

Yup, export your DISPLAY variable correctly and do xhost+ as the session
owning user.

>  
> Cheers.  See you at the moot tomorrow.  Still at the HC I assume?


Thursday surely..?


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