Maybe a Kwrite bug ?

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Anyone else using openSuse 11.2 find that you can’t launch Kwrite as su from a terminal?

I can launch it as a regular user and I can log in as root and launch it but no way can I get it to launch as su.

Cheers,
Carlton

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in opensuse you must use kdesu, like so:

kdesu kwrite

then it will launch…i forgot why, but it has been that way for a
while (maybe since 11.0 or or or)

ps, in gnome it is (guess!) gnomesu

–
palladium

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Note that this goes for pretty much any application with a GUI and I think it had to do with starting in the roots environment otherwise… which isn’t quite fully loaded ;).

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csm58 wrote:

>
> Anyone else using openSuse 11.2 find that you can’t launch Kwrite as su
> from a terminal?
>
> I can launch it as a regular user and I can log in as root and launch
> it but no way can I get it to launch as su.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlton
>
>
You can use su -m to give root permissions.
But as the user environment is preserved there will be error messages.
Normally kdesu woould be used.

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Thanks very much. kdesu worked like a charm.

Is it fairly recent (6months 1 year) that kde had to go in front of su?

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> Is it fairly recent (6months 1 year) that kde had to go in front of
> su?

i think it is a “SUSE thing” not a KDE thing…and it either began
with 11.0 or 11.1, i really don’t remember which…but is hasn’t been
much over a year, if that long…iirc

–
palladium

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I think it depends on what you’ve been using. su/kwrite will work using KDE3 on 11.1. Had (as mentioned on another thread today) noticed differences before but now I want 11.2 have only just been “forced” into different ways.