Re: [trinity-users] kdesudo and kdesu

I have tested various workarounds for getting GUI stuff as root (without enabling sudo) for the past week. Some Debian users are not comfortable with sudo at all (especially if configured for root access without password) and prefer the root password to be required for administration. I have now settled on a workable solution with Trinity. Using: kdesu <kdeapp> --nonewdcop with the configs I posted earlier has not failed once. (must create file kdesurc and purge kdesudo-trinity) It seems the user's dcop and/or klauncher crashes if/when root gets a new dcop. I don't know why, when I used sudo initially, that did not happen. I edited the menu with a new "root apps" section (konq, kwrite, kuser) configured like that, with "run as different user" unchecked so can now use terminal, run box or menu. Non-trinity, gtk apps (synaptic, gparted, zenity) I had problems with before seem fixed by adding to ~/.bashrc: export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority Needed reboot (or relogin) to register that. Don't know if that has security issues but it works. I can now open, error-free, as root from terminal or via custom script with: dbus-launch <gtk-app> That will not work for trinity apps. sux gives the same problem as kdesu without --nonewdcop; can't use that (for Trinity apps) now but never mind