On Thursday 30 July 2015 04:57:53 am Lisi Reisz wrote: (snip)
What's wrong with getting where you need to go via Konsole?
I can't get there. I run Debian.
I don't understand. I thought you were running Jessie. ;-) What does running Debian have to do with whatever your objection with Konq and/or Konsole is?
Debian, by default, will not run a GUI as root. So if oyu try to run a GUI application from the root Konsole you get:
root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# kwrite Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed root@Tux-II:/home/lisi#
I am currently playing with Debian on another box. This has become a source of some frustration to me, as I'm used to being able to work as root when I want to, GUI and all!
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Sorry, I can't see what you are getting at here. But no, Konsole doesn't offer me mc. Probably because I haven't got mc installed.
It's often one of the first things that I add after an installation. :-)
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Debian has decided not to allow GUI root log-ins. It is not a case of "not being bothered", and there is nothing wrong with Konsole (which is supplied by TDE, not Debian).
I don't know where this is defined, but if I find it I'm surely going to change it!
As of this point in time, I find that if I log in as root in a text console, ignoring the GUI login for the moment, then I can "startx" and it will get me there. But there's no obvious way to choose what desktop I want, so even though I have several installed (TDE is coming soon! :-) I'm stuck in Xfce.
Anybody know how to fix either of these things?