On 16/03/11 23:39, Ed Hurst wrote:
I noticed some of these were already mentioned, though not fixed or answered, so far as I can determine.
KDM -- won't allow me to shut down, reboot or much of anything else except login.
Kdesu -- refuses to accept my root password. I have to jack around to setup the X auth for root using the commandline.
KWifiManager -- If I launch from the commandline as root, it does find a network, but the wrong one. I can't get it to let me select my in-home wifi connection. It lists it for a scan, but I see no means to make it select it. From my user account, I can't do anything with it at all.
This last one is a show-stopper for me. If I can't connect and configure on the fly wherever I go, the DE is useless. So, what would you need from me to diagnose this?
Kdesu does not function properly http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=451
Kdesudo does work but sudo is generally not the preferred method for Debian users
I posted a workaround in the forum:
http://www.trinitydesktop.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=15
From normal Squeeze repos, wpagui works better here than knetworkmanager ever did. It is qt4 but will not also install half of kde4 as deps. I use "apt-get install no-install-recommends wpagui"
This link is the best wpagui setup info I know of:
http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~locatell/linux&noi/documenti/sidux-manual/en...
Don't know about your kdm, someone else might if you post more info. Works fine here.