9 Feb
2012
9 Feb
'12
10:08 a.m.
Not everyone, particularly Debian users, wants sudo globally enabled.
There are numerous kdesu bugs, possibly related. I posted another only
today.
This issue has been my most major usability annoyance with TDE from the
beginning and till today was unresolved.
I just found, quite by accident, this one, titled "startkde (starttde)
needs updating"
http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675
The solution (for 3.5.13, in /opt/trinity/bin/startkde) is simply:
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### out ##
114,116c116,128
< if [ -z "$KDEROOTHOME" ] && [ "$UID" = "0" ];
then
< echo "[startkde] User ID is $UID. Setting KDEROOTHOME to $KDEHOME."
< export KDEROOTHOME=$KDEHOME
---
#if [ -z "$KDEROOTHOME" ] && [
"$UID" = "0" ]; then
# echo "[startkde] User ID is $UID. Setting KDEROOTHOME to $KDEHOME."
# export KDEROOTHOME=$KDEHOME
#fi
### in ##re: http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675
# kdesu needs something to find root's TDE profile. Set the
TDEROOTHOME
variable
# here as last resort. /root/.trinity is a safe
presumption. If an
admin wants
# a different location then set the TDEROOTHOME
variable elsewhere.
if [ -z "$KDEROOTHOME" ]; then
export KDEROOTHOME=/root/.trinity
echo "startkde: Setting KDEROOTHOME to $KDEROOTHOME."
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I could before not even change the clock without getting root-owned
files in ~. Now, no more dcopserver crashes. Gksu, sux and su-to-root -C
work. I can set a different appearance for root instances of
kwrite,konq,..
Not fully tested yet but good so far.
If Darryl reads this, thanks enormously.
David