26 Jul
2015
26 Jul
'15
10:54 p.m.
In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run eg KWrite or Konqueror as
root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
Lisi
26 Jul
26 Jul
11:03 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On 07/26/2015 03:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run eg
KWrite or Konqueror as
root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have both kwrite and konqueror.
To make other run-as-root menu items, make the item in Menu Editor, check
"Run as a different user", and put root for the Username.
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27 Jul
8:25 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Monday 27 July 2015 00:03:11 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 07/26/2015 03:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Thanks, Dan. I'll try it.
Lisi
In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run
eg KWrite or Konqueror
as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have both kwrite and konqueror.
To make other run-as-root menu items, make the item in Menu Editor, check
"Run as a different user", and put root for the Username.
29 Jul
29 Jul
10:22 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Monday 27 July 2015 00:03:11 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 07/26/2015 03:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Unfortunately Konqueror and Konsole. :-( Konsole is easy anyway - launch as
normal user and su to root. Buty I miss my beloved KWrite. :-(
In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run
eg KWrite or Konqueror
as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have both kwrite and konqueror. To make other run-as-root menu items, make the item in
Menu Editor, check
"Run as a different user", and put root for the Username.
Still haven't tried this.
Lisi
30 Jul
30 Jul
12:02 a.m.
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Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-29 23:22 (UTC+0100):
Dan Youngquist wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you
run eg KWrite or Konqueror
> > as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
> Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have
both kwrite and konqueror.
Unfortunately Konqueror and Konsole. :-(
What's wrong with getting where you need to go via Konsole?
Konsole is easy anyway - launch as normal user and su
to root.
Even easier than that .....
Buty I miss my beloved KWrite. :-(
> To make other run-as-root menu items, make the
item in Menu Editor, check
> "Run as a different user", and put root for the Username.
Still haven't tried this.
How often due you find it necesary to edit as root? Is there some problem
using a readily available but more generic editor instead of KWrite for such
tasks?
.....
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
Are these Konsole session menu options missing on Jessie? MCEdit is how most
system configuration maintenance gets done on all my installations. And of
course, MC is one of the oldest and most feature packed file managers available.
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/
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7:58 a.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 01:02:13 Felix Miata wrote:
Not often. But when I do I find KWrite much the best for me. I don't have ot
run TDE. I could run KDE44 or Gnome or LXDE. I don't have ot run KWrite.
In fact, at the moment I can't run KWrite as root, but I want to run KWrite.
And yes, there is a problem - I can't see anything else as well. But even if
there weren't, why shouldn't I try to run it just because I want to?
I shall continue to try to use those facilities of TDE that I have
particularly valued over the years. If I can't, I can't. One day I may even
be forced to choose between KDE4 and Windows.
...
Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-29 23:22 (UTC+0100):
I can't get there. I run Debian.
Dan Youngquist wrote:
What's wrong with getting where you need to go via Konsole? Lisi Reisz wrote:
Unfortunately Konqueror and Konsole. :-( In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run
eg KWrite or
Konqueror as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be
missing this time.
Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have both kwrite and
konqueror. Konsole is
easy anyway - launch as normal user and su to root.
Even easier than that .....
Buty I miss my beloved KWrite. :-(
How often due you find it necesary to edit as root? Is there some problem
using a readily available but more generic editor instead of KWrite for
such tasks? To make other run-as-root menu items, make the
item in Menu Editor,
check "Run as a different user", and put root for the Username.
Still haven't tried this.
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
Are these Konsole session menu options missing on Jessie? MCEdit is how
most system configuration maintenance gets done on all my installations.
And of course, MC is one of the oldest and most feature packed file
managers available. http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/
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.
Lisi
8:18 a.m.
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Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
On Thursday 30 July 2015 01:02:13 Felix Miata wrote:
Not often. But when I do I find KWrite much the best for me. I don't have ot
run TDE. I could run KDE44 or Gnome or LXDE. I don't have ot run KWrite.
In fact, at the moment I can't run KWrite as root, but I want to run KWrite.
And yes, there is a problem - I can't see anything else as well. But even if
there weren't, why shouldn't I try to run it just because I want to?
I shall continue to try to use those facilities of TDE that I have
particularly valued over the years. If I can't, I can't. One day I may even
be forced to choose between KDE4 and Windows.
...
Hi Lisi!
Press <alt>+<F2> and enter:
tdesu kwrite
Nik
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Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-29 23:22
(UTC+0100):
I can't get there. I run Debian.
Dan Youngquist wrote:
What's wrong with getting where you need to go via Konsole? Lisi Reisz wrote:
> In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run eg KWrite or
> Konqueror as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be
> missing this time.
Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have both kwrite and
konqueror.
Unfortunately Konqueror and Konsole. :-( Konsole
is easy anyway - launch as normal user and su to root.
Even easier than that .....
Buty I miss my beloved KWrite. :-(
How often due you find it necesary to edit as root? Is there some problem
using a readily available but more generic editor instead of KWrite for
such tasks? To make other run-as-root menu items, make the
item in Menu Editor,
check "Run as a different user", and put root for the Username.
Still haven't tried this.
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
Are these Konsole session menu options missing on Jessie? MCEdit is how
most system configuration maintenance gets done on all my installations.
And of course, MC is one of the oldest and most feature packed file
managers available. http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/
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.
Lisi
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HI, Nik,
On Thursday 30 July 2015 09:18:26 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Press <alt>+<F2> and enter:
tdesu kwrite
That is what doesn't work in R14. :-( It is what, mutatis mutandis, I have
done for years, and what I shall file a wish bug to be able to do
again/still. It is. or rather, sadly, was, great!
Lisi
9:22 a.m.
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Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
HI, Nik,
On Thursday 30 July 2015 09:18:26 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi Lisi!
It works here on R14.0.1 and tdesu is installed by tdebase-trinity-bin so I assume
it's installed on your computer. But if /opt/trinity/bin is not in your path that
command will fail more or less silently. Could you please open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes about 15 seconds for
kwrite to open.
Nik
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Press <alt>+<F2> and enter:
tdesu kwrite
That is what doesn't work in R14. :-( It is what, mutatis mutandis, I have
done for years, and what I shall file a wish bug to be able to do
again/still. It is. or rather, sadly, was, great!
Lisi
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Hi, Nik :-)
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:22:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
It works here on R14.0.1 and tdesu is installed by
tdebase-trinity-bin so I
assume it's installed on your computer. But if /opt/trinity/bin is not in
your path that command will fail more or less silently. Could you please
open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes about 15
seconds for kwrite to open.
It ran KWrite as root, and in less than 15 seconds. No other output.
You would appear to have cracked it, Nik. I just have to sort out my paths.
Thank you. :-))
Lisi
10:02 a.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:45:39 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Hi, Nik :-)
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:22:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
/opt/trinity/bin is in my $PATH. :-(
Where next?
(It did occur to me as I ran between computers that it must be, because KWrite
launches fine as $USER.)
Lisi
It works here on R14.0.1 and tdesu is installed
by tdebase-trinity-bin so
I assume it's installed on your computer. But if /opt/trinity/bin is not
in your path that command will fail more or less silently. Could you
please open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes about
15 seconds for kwrite to open.
It ran KWrite as root, and in less than 15 seconds. No other output.
You would appear to have cracked it, Nik. I just have to sort out my
paths.
10:36 a.m.
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Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:45:39 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Please start konsole, type:
$ tdesu kwrite
What is the output that line and the next command prompt "$ "?
Nik
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Hi, Nik :-)
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:22:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
/opt/trinity/bin is in my $PATH. :-(
Where next?
(It did occur to me as I ran between computers that it must be, because KWrite
launches fine as $USER.)
Lisi
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It works here on R14.0.1 and tdesu is installed
by tdebase-trinity-bin so
I assume it's installed on your computer. But if /opt/trinity/bin is not
in your path that command will fail more or less silently. Could you
please open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes about
15 seconds for kwrite to open.
It ran KWrite as root, and in less than 15 seconds. No other output.
You would appear to have cracked it, Nik. I just have to sort out my
paths.
10:52 a.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 11:36:40 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
No output. It ran perfectly. So I thought: If it can run from konsole, why
not from launcher? So I tried again in launcher. And tdesu now runs
perfectly. Well, with all three of teh applications I want it to run with,
and I don't care about anyhting else!!
So you, Alexandre and Dan have cracked it, it now woprks, and I haven't got a
clue what I did that worked. :-/
But thank you all very much.
Lisi
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:45:39 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
Please start konsole, type:
$ tdesu kwrite
What is the output that line and the next command prompt "$ "? Hi, Nik :-)
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:22:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
/opt/trinity/bin is in my $PATH. :-(
Where next?
(It did occur to me as I ran between computers that it must be, because
KWrite launches fine as $USER.)
Lisi
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by
tdebase-trinity-bin so I assume it's installed on your computer. But
if /opt/trinity/bin is not in your path that command will fail more
or less silently. Could you please open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes
about 15 seconds for kwrite to open.
It ran KWrite as root, and in less than 15 seconds. No other output.
You would appear to have cracked it, Nik. I just have to sort out my
paths. 
10:42 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:02:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:45:39 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Maybe you've got a rogue nonfunctional tdesu installed somewhere earlier in
your $PATH?
E. Liddell
Hi, Nik :-)
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:22:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
/opt/trinity/bin is in my $PATH. :-(
Where next?
(It did occur to me as I ran between computers that it must be, because KWrite
launches fine as $USER.) It works here on R14.0.1 and tdesu is installed
by tdebase-trinity-bin so
I assume it's installed on your computer. But if /opt/trinity/bin is not
in your path that command will fail more or less silently. Could you
please open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes about
15 seconds for kwrite to open.
It ran KWrite as root, and in less than 15 seconds. No other output.
You would appear to have cracked it, Nik. I just have to sort out my
paths.
10:55 a.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 11:42:09 E. Liddell wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:02:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It now looks as though the real one was not functioning, and has somehow been
stirred into functioning. Unless this is right, and all the stirring around
has moved the real one up the pecking order?
Anything I can do to find out? If there is a rogue one floating around, I
should perhaps get rid of it.
I am baffled but delighted. I do love this list!!
Lisi
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:45:39 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
Maybe you've got a rogue nonfunctional tdesu installed somewhere earlier in
your $PATH? Hi, Nik :-)
On Thursday 30 July 2015 10:22:00 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
/opt/trinity/bin is in my $PATH. :-(
Where next?
(It did occur to me as I ran between computers that it must be, because
KWrite launches fine as $USER.) It works here on R14.0.1 and tdesu is installed
by
tdebase-trinity-bin so I assume it's installed on your computer. But
if /opt/trinity/bin is not in your path that command will fail more
or less silently. Could you please open konsole, there enter:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdesu /opt/trinity/bin/kwrite
and post the output from the console? BTY, on my computer it takes
about 15 seconds for kwrite to open.
It ran KWrite as root, and in less than 15 seconds. No other output.
You would appear to have cracked it, Nik. I just have to sort out my
paths.
8:32 a.m.
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Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-30 08:58 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
> Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-29 23:22
(UTC+0100):
> >Dan Youngquist wrote:
> >> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> > In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu,
how do you run eg KWrite or
> >> > Konqueror as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be
> >> > missing this time.
> >> Main menu / System / SuperUser, you
should have both kwrite and
> >> konqueror.
> > Unfortunately Konqueror and Konsole. :-(
> 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?
> How often due you find it necesary to edit as
root? Is there some problem
> using a readily available but more generic editor instead of KWrite for
> such tasks?
Not often. But when I do I find KWrite much the best
for me. I don't have ot
run TDE. I could run KDE44 or Gnome or LXDE. I don't have ot run KWrite.
In fact, at the moment I can't run KWrite as root, but I want to run KWrite.
And yes, there is a problem - I can't see anything else as well. But even if
there weren't, why shouldn't I try to run it just because I want to?
I wasn't suggesting giving up your preferences, only offering workarounds for
the period until such time as your expectations can be met.
I shall continue to try to use those facilities of TDE
that I have
particularly valued over the years. If I can't, I can't. One day I may even
be forced to choose between KDE4 and Windows.
We don't want that, especially Win10, with its expanded intrusion on privacy. ;-)
...
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
> Are these Konsole session menu options missing on
Jessie? MCEdit is how
> most system configuration maintenance gets done on all my installations.
> And of course, MC is one of the oldest and most feature packed file
> managers available. http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/
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.
Is the root shell option missing from your Konsole menu too?
I find it inexplicable that default installs cant be bothered to include this
unequaled tool. :-(
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8:57 a.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 09:32:48 Felix Miata wrote:
I wasn't suggesting giving up your preferences, only offering workarounds
for the period until such time as your expectations can be met.
I use nano. I just don't like it anyhting like as much.
Of course not.
Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-30 08:58 (UTC+0100):
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#
Felix Miata wrote:
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? Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-29 23:22
(UTC+0100):
I can't get there. I run Debian. Dan Youngquist wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run eg KWrite or
> > Konqueror as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be
> > missing this time.
>
> Main menu / System / SuperUser, you should have both kwrite and
> konqueror.
Unfortunately Konqueror and Konsole. :-(
What's wrong with getting where you need to go via Konsole? How often due you find it necesary to edit as root? Is
there some
problem using a readily available but more generic editor instead of
KWrite for such tasks?
Not often. But when I do I find KWrite much the best for me. I don't
have ot run TDE. I could run KDE44 or Gnome or LXDE. I don't have ot
run KWrite. In fact, at the moment I can't run KWrite as root, but I want
to run KWrite. And yes, there is a problem - I can't see anything else as
well. But even if there weren't, why shouldn't I try to run it just
because I want to? I shall
continue to try to use those facilities of TDE that I have
particularly valued over the years. If I can't, I can't. One day I may
even be forced to choose between KDE4 and Windows.
We don't want that, especially Win10, with its expanded intrusion on
privacy. ;-)
...
Is the root shell option missing from your Konsole menu too?
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/tde14KonsoleSessionMenu.png
Are these Konsole session menu options missing on Jessie? MCEdit is how
most system configuration maintenance gets done on all my installations.
And of course, MC is one of the oldest and most feature packed file
managers available. http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/
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.
I find it inexplicable that default installs cant be bothered to include
this unequaled tool. :-(
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). mc is missing only because I have not got mc installed.
You didn't ask about the rest of the menu.
In R14 <tdesu konsole> doesn't work either, but is easier to work round.
Lisi
12 Aug
12 Aug
2:05 p.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 04:57:53 am Lisi Reisz wrote:
(snip)
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!
(snip)
What's
wrong with getting where you need to go via Konsole?
I can't get there. I run Debian. > > 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. :-)
(snip)
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?
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3:49 p.m.
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 10:05 (UTC-0400):
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Debian has decided not to allow GUI root log-ins.
It is not a case of
I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the
default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives available.
> "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!
root@myhost# whoami
root
root@myhost:~# ps -A | egrep 'mc|onsole'
1152 ? 00:00:01 konsole
1167 pts/2 00:00:00 mc
root@myhost:~# uname -a
Linux myhost 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) x86_64
GNU/Linux
root@gmyhost:~# grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
root@myhost:~# egrep 'root|wRoot' /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc
AllowRootLogin=true
SelectedUsers=root,...
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?
Man startx.
Simply startx works here with TDE as the already selected/default session.
startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde also works here, but it disregards my xrandr
display startup commands in /etc/X11/*.
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5:45 p.m.
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On Wednesday 12 August 2015 16:49:56 Felix Miata wrote:
Well, I have always understood from other Debian users that it does, I have
used several different DEs with Debian, all with the same set-up, and it does
not apply to all other distros whichever DE you use. I have not had a GUI
root log-in since I abandoned a brief spell with OpenSuse many years ago.
I have always installed Debian with root enabled. This may make a difference.
Lisi
> Debian has
decided not to allow GUI root log-ins. It is not a case of
I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the
default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives
available.
6:16 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 01:45:08 pm Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 16:49:56 Felix Miata
wrote:
Well, I have always understood from other Debian users that it does, I have
used several different DEs with Debian, all with the same set-up, and it does
not apply to all other distros whichever DE you use. I have not had a GUI
root log-in since I abandoned a brief spell with OpenSuse many years ago.
I have always installed Debian with root enabled. This may make a difference.
I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed. Nor a few other
things that I was used to, like being able to configure my network as opposed to the
installation just using DHCP because it found DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some specific
invocation that I missed?
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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>
Debian has decided not to allow GUI root log-ins. It is not a case of
I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the
default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives
available.
9:56 p.m.
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On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:16:22 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
I don't remember ever being offered that option
when I installed. Nor a
few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my
network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found
DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some
specific invocation that I missed?
It is a question asked during the install.
As far as I can remember, having a root log-in is default, but you are offered
the chance to refuse. But I have only installed Jessie twice, so may be
misremebering it, because that is certainly what happens in Wheezy. But I
certainly had no problem installing with root.
How, with what, and with what .iso, did you install?
Lisi
13 Aug
13 Aug
12:17 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 05:56:09 pm Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:16:22 Roy J. Tellason,
Sr. wrote:
It may be that it asked me if I wanted a root login to be created during the install
process, is that what you're talking about?
I don't remember ever being offered that
option when I installed. Nor a
few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my
network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found
DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some
specific invocation that I missed?
It is a question asked during the install.
As far as I can remember, having a root log-in is default, but you are offered
the chance to refuse. But I have only installed Jessie twice, so may be
misremebering it, because that is certainly what happens in Wheezy. But I
certainly had no problem installing with root. How, with what, and with what .iso, did you install?
The DVD I used is in the drive at the moment, I was looking over some doc files.
It's the first one you can download for the 8.1 release.
I'd downloaded 7.0 a while back (hard to believe that it's been a couple of years
already!) and tried to install that one on my workbench computer, which was not
successful. That machine has Slackware, Ubuntu, and a couple of others on it that I was
taking a look at. Then I downloaded 8.0 more recently, and tried to install on this
workstation on my desk, but I ran into some issue or other, I can't recall just what
offhand. Thankfully I had also downloaded a "live" DVD and booting into that
one and using the install option there worked.
I managed to trash my first install pretty good, and had to re-install. The second one
also went fine, and I then proceeded to install a number of software packages that I want
to get to know and to use. One of the first was mc, I'm just used to using it. :-)
Also some CAD packages and assorted other technical stuff. So I'm at the point where
I'd really rather not have to go through all that again.
I selected several desktop environments so I could evaluate them and see what they were
like, figuring that I'd add TDE to the mix. I just haven't gotten around to that
yet.
I'm used to booting into a textmode console on my machines, and doing
"startx" to get a GUI going. The default here seems to be to boot into the GUI,
and I don't recall being offered a choice about that, either. I know how to go in
and fiddle with inittab, but now I'm reading that this setup uses something else
entirely, so I've gotta figure that one out too. I'm also used to being able to
log in as root, and use a GUI as that user, and that hasn't worked out as well as
I'd hoped either. At this point I can select a number of different desktop
environments with the GUI login screen as a regular user, but logging into a text console
as root and then doing startx I am stuck with Xfce, which I find limiting. The darn
games don't even seem to work!
I do have my network shares mounted, which is strange because I see a failure indicated
during the boot process, yet they're all there.
TDE is pretty high up on my list, as I'm used to KDE 3.x, which is what I'm
using now on this laptop, with Slackware 12.1 under the hood. Can you tell I'm not
usually in any big hurry to upgrade? :-)
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2:05 a.m.
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 20:17 (UTC-0400):
I'm used to booting into a textmode console on my
machines, and doing
"startx" to get a GUI going. The default here seems to be to boot into
the GUI, and I don't recall being offered a choice about that, either.
I know how to go in and fiddle with inittab, but now I'm reading that
this setup uses something else entirely, so I've gotta figure that one
out too. I'm also used to being able to log in as root, and use a GUI as
that user, and that hasn't worked out as well as I'd hoped either. At
this point I can select a number of different desktop environments with
the GUI login screen as a regular user,
The user-friendly distros' installers all default to providing a GUI login
manager. Main exceptions I expect would be Gentoo and Slackware.
The old way of getting started without any GUI login manager for most distros
(Debian and its derivatives excepted) was through inittab setting something
other than 5 the default runlevel line. In distros that replaced sysvinit
with systemd (e.g. Jessie) the new default configuration for GUI login
manager is found thus:
# systemctl get-default
which will output
graphical.target
To by default stop init prior to X startup, do
# systemctl set-default multi-user.default
However, as with sysvinit, as with all rpm distros with which I am familiar,
all the above can be disregarded, and yet not have X automatically start,
simply by including a 2 or a 3 on the kernel's cmdline in the bootloader
stanza you use. Debian and its derivatives (e.g. *buntu) using sysvinit
differed from rpm distros by including X autostart in runlevel 2 and not
defining any additional startups in runlevels 3-5.
but logging into a text console
as root and then doing startx I am stuck with Xfce, which I find
limiting.
When I've found myself up against failure of cmdline arguments to startx to
get the WM session I want, I start the GUI login manager (usually KDM3 or
TDM) and login selecting some other WM, which in some situations became the
new default used by startx after login manager shutdown.
In openSUSE, changing the system level default WM session defined for the
login manager has up to now at least been via /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager.
Other distros control it someplace I never seem to be able to locate. I know
at some point in time, user-level control could be via ~/.dmrc specifying
something other than "default" from among the content of usr/share/xsessions.
I think user-level selection may be something alternatively available via
~/.xinitrc, but I don't recall ever trying without tripping over other problems.
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3:58 p.m.
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On Wednesday 12 August 2015 10:05:22 pm Felix Miata wrote:
That's the part I'm not clear on at the moment, how I select which WM gets active
when I startx...
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 20:17
(UTC-0400):
I've never looked at Gentoo, basically because from what I've read it appears
that it would be *way* more time-consuming. In terms of other choices, I picked Debian
since an awful lot of what else was out there was derived from it. Now I'm not so
sure of my choice. I *did* feel that it was a good idea to get acquainted with some
distro that used a package manager, so Debian seemed the logical choice.
I'm used to booting into a textmode console
on my machines, and doing
"startx" to get a GUI going. The default here seems to be to boot into
the GUI, and I don't recall being offered a choice about that, either.
I know how to go in and fiddle with inittab, but now I'm reading that
this setup uses something else entirely, so I've gotta figure that one
out too. I'm also used to being able to log in as root, and use a GUI as
that user, and that hasn't worked out as well as I'd hoped either. At
this point I can select a number of different desktop environments with
the GUI login screen as a regular user,
The user-friendly distros' installers all default to providing a GUI login
manager. Main exceptions I expect would be Gentoo and Slackware. The old way of getting started without any GUI login
manager for most distros
(Debian and its derivatives excepted) was through inittab setting something
other than 5 the default runlevel line. In distros that replaced sysvinit
with systemd (e.g. Jessie) the new default configuration for GUI login
manager is found thus:
# systemctl get-default
Wow. Typing systemctl by itself sure brings up a lot of stuff... :-)
I guess I need to get acquainted with this bit of software now, as opposed to simply
going in and editing a text config file in /etc like I'm used to doing. Lots of
complications there...
which will output
graphical.target
It did.
To by default stop init prior to X startup, do
# systemctl set-default multi-user.default
I'll try that just before I'm ready to reboot the system next. Mostly I just
leave it running...
However, as with sysvinit, as with all rpm distros
with which I am familiar,
all the above can be disregarded, and yet not have X automatically start,
simply by including a 2 or a 3 on the kernel's cmdline in the bootloader
stanza you use. Debian and its derivatives (e.g. *buntu) using sysvinit
differed from rpm distros by including X autostart in runlevel 2 and not
defining any additional startups in runlevels 3-5.
The bootloader is another issue. I'm used to LILO, not GRUB. So I have more to
learn here, too.
but logging
into a text console as root and then doing startx I am stuck with
Xfce, which I find limiting.
When I've found myself up against failure of cmdline arguments to startx to
get the WM session I want, I start the GUI login manager (usually KDM3 or
TDM) and login selecting some other WM, which in some situations became the
new default used by startx after login manager shutdown. In openSUSE, changing the system level default WM
session defined for the
login manager has up to now at least been via /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager.
That file doesn't seem to exist here. There's a /etc/sysctl.d directory, and a
/etc/systemd directory, a lot of stuff to sort through.
Other distros control it someplace I never seem to be
able to locate.
That's one of the things that drives me nuts with regard to this stuff. Lots and lots
of complications, and it's not apparent to me why they changed things to be that way,
what the advantage is.
I know at some point in time, user-level control could
be via ~/.dmrc specifying
something other than "default" from among the content of usr/share/xsessions.
I think user-level selection may be something alternatively available via
~/.xinitrc, but I don't recall ever trying without tripping over other problems.
Yup!
Try looking at
man systemd.directives
which seems to refer mostly to a whole LOT of other man pages...! Almost 5000 lines
worth, "contains 1621 entries in 14 sections, referring to 177 individual manual
pages". Wow.
So at this point I need to resolve getting it to boot the way I want it to, being able to
select which WM I want, finding out why my printer won't duplex when it does from
this laptop, and installing TDE when they get around to that new release. Among other
things...
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5:54 p.m.
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-13 11:58 (UTC-0400):
I've never looked at Gentoo, basically because
from what I've read it
appears that it would be *way* more time-consuming. In terms of other
It is more time consuming, waiting for compiles for every package installed.
But, you learn things you'd not likely ever learn otherwise, and the result
is you have more control and knowledge of your system, and a lot less
installed software that you'll never use.
choices, I picked Debian since an awful lot of what
else was out there
was derived from it. Now I'm not so sure of my choice. I *did* feel that
Debian's LTS nature can be a compelling reason for choosing it.
it was a good idea to get acquainted with some distro
that used a package
manager, so Debian seemed the logical choice.
My favorite package manager was the youngest around until Fedora 22 was
released, when Yum was replaced by DNF, making DNF the newest. I find
openSUSE's Zypper and YaST2 combination unbeatable in terms of power, ease of
use and friendliness. Zypper is cmdline only. YaST2 has ncurses and GUI
modes. Both use the same RPM foundation and databases, so they can freely be
switched between, just not both run at the same time. Their package locking
system is simple and easy to use yet as powerful as anyone could hope for.
...
> To by default stop init prior to X startup, do
> # systemctl set-default multi-user.default
I'll try that just before I'm ready to reboot
the system next. Mostly I
just leave it running...
It doesn't matter when. AFAICT, default.target has no effect on anything
already running.
> However, as with sysvinit, as with all rpm distros
with which I am
> familiar, all the above can be disregarded, and yet not have X
> automatically start, simply by including a 2 or a 3 on the kernel's
> cmdline in the bootloader stanza you use. Debian and its derivatives
> (e.g. *buntu) using sysvinit differed from rpm distros by including X
> autostart in runlevel 2 and not defining any additional startups in
> runlevels 3-5.
The bootloader is another issue. I'm used to
LILO, not GRUB. So I have
more to learn here, too.
Note that there is both the original Grub, now typically called Grub Legacy,
and Grub2, which some distros call Grub while others call it Grub2. The newer
is significantly different, much more powerful, and much tougher to deal with
manually if manually is your pleasure for configuration management. Grub
Legacy doesn't support EFI, can be tricky or impossible to use with storage
capacity >2TB, but doesn't cry the sky is falling when you wish to install it
to a partition instead of MBR, nor complain when a vga= is on cmdline. Grub
is my primary bootloader on every one of my many systems, always on a primary
partition, never the MBR. Grub2 here is only ever installed to Debian or its
derivatives, and not used to actually boot except when wanting to select a
prior kernel version to boot.
...
> In openSUSE, changing the system level default WM
session defined for
> the login manager has up to now at least been via
> /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager.
That file doesn't seem to exist here. There's
a /etc/sysctl.d directory,
and a /etc/systemd directory, a lot of stuff to sort through.
I don't think very many distros use /etc/sysconfig/ any more, if they ever
did. I do think on openSUSE it's used mostly or entirely by YaST2.
> Other distros control it someplace I never seem to
be able to locate.
That's one of the things that drives me nuts with
regard to this stuff.
Lots and lots of complications, and it's not apparent to me why they
changed things to be that way, what the advantage is.
It seems distros are more and more catching on that /etc/ is where sysadmin
deviation from default configs belong while defaults belong in /usr/ along
with the software.
...
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11:49 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Thursday 13 August 2015 01:17:34 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 05:56:09 pm Lisi Reisz
wrote:
Welcome, or otherwise, to the world of systemd.
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:16:22 Roy J.
Tellason, Sr. wrote:
It may be that it asked me if I wanted a root login to be created during
the install process, is that what you're talking about?
I don't remember ever being offered that
option when I installed. Nor
a few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my
network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found
DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some
specific invocation that I missed?
It is a question asked during the install.
As far as I can remember, having a root log-in is default, but you are
offered the chance to refuse. But I have only installed Jessie twice, so
may be misremebering it, because that is certainly what happens in
Wheezy. But I certainly had no problem installing with root. How, with what, and with what .iso, did you
install?
The DVD I used is in the drive at the moment, I was looking over some doc
files. It's the first one you can download for the 8.1 release.
I'd downloaded 7.0 a while back (hard to believe that it's been a couple of
years already!) and tried to install that one on my workbench computer,
which was not successful. That machine has Slackware, Ubuntu, and a
couple of others on it that I was taking a look at. Then I downloaded 8.0
more recently, and tried to install on this workstation on my desk, but I
ran into some issue or other, I can't recall just what offhand.
Thankfully I had also downloaded a "live" DVD and booting into that one and
using the install option there worked.
I managed to trash my first install pretty good, and had to re-install.
The second one also went fine, and I then proceeded to install a number of
software packages that I want to get to know and to use. One of the first
was mc, I'm just used to using it. :-) Also some CAD packages and
assorted other technical stuff. So I'm at the point where I'd really
rather not have to go through all that again.
I selected several desktop environments so I could evaluate them and see
what they were like, figuring that I'd add TDE to the mix. I just haven't
gotten around to that yet.
I'm used to booting into a textmode console on my machines, and doing
"startx" to get a GUI going. The default here seems to be to boot into the
GUI, and I don't recall being offered a choice about that, either. I
know how to go in and fiddle with inittab, but now I'm reading that this
setup uses something else entirely, so I've gotta figure that one out too.
I'm also used to being able to log in as root, and use a GUI as that
user, and that hasn't worked out as well as I'd hoped either. At this
point I can select a number of different desktop environments with the GUI
login screen as a regular user, but logging into a text console as root
and then doing startx I am stuck with Xfce, which I find limiting.
I would expect you to be able to just uninstall the dm (gdm3? kdm?), boot
into the command line, log-in as whomsoever you wish, and startx. ISTR that
you can put the GUI you want to boot into from startx in an x conf file
(.xsession? probably not). I did this once, but it was ages ago and my
memory is fading.
The
darn games don't even seem to work!
I do have my network shares mounted, which is strange because I see a
failure indicated during the boot process, yet they're all there.
TDE is pretty high up on my list, as I'm used to KDE 3.x, which is what
I'm using now on this laptop, with Slackware 12.1 under the hood. Can you
tell I'm not usually in any big hurry to upgrade? :-)
If you are a KDE3-aholic you'll love TDE.
FWIW, all those seem minor and soluble to me.
Lisi
14 Aug
14 Aug
12:15 a.m.
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Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-08-14 00:49 (UTC+0100):
I would expect you to be able to just uninstall the dm
(gdm3? kdm?), boot
into the command line, log-in as whomsoever you wish, and startx. ISTR that
you can put the GUI you want to boot into from startx in an x conf file
(.xsession? probably not). I did this once, but it was ages ago and my
memory is fading.
In Jessie it here appears that to make TDM the default DM all that's required
is to include the following as the only content in
/etc/X11/default-display-manager:
/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
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12 Aug
11:13 p.m.
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 14:16 (UTC-0400):
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I have always installed Debian with root enabled.
This may make a
> difference.
I don't remember ever being offered that option
when I installed. Nor a
few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my
network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found
DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to
install with some
specific invocation that I missed?
I don't know those answers, but I have 97%+ fixed IP installations regardless
of distro here, and nearly always installations are via HTTP. This is from
the installer's syslog from the Jessie installation I referred to upthread:
Jul 11 03:02:18 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: expert net.ifnames=0
ipv6.disable=1 netcfg/disable_dhcp=true netcfg/get_hostname=myhost
hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false tasks=standard
base-installer/install-recommends=false nosplash splash=0 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
vga=788
Unless I edited it on the fly, which I do not remember now a month later,
that cmdline resulted from a Grub (Legacy) stanza I created after reading
Debian network installation instructions. Key to avoiding DHCP at the outset
is the inclusion of netcfg/disable_dhcp=true while tasks=standard and
base-installer/install-recommends=false are about preventing litter from
other desktops' deps on a system intended to have TDE as its only DM.
AFAIR, I created zero ordinary users until quite some time after installation
was over and I had rebooted several times.
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13 Aug
12:43 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 07:13:39 pm Felix Miata wrote:
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 14:16
(UTC-0400):
Well, I haven't decided that it'll be the *only* DM at this point, but odds are
that I'll probably end up using it a good bit more than others, which I'm finding
limiting.
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I have always installed Debian with root
enabled. This may make a
> difference.
I don't remember ever being offered that
option when I installed. Nor a
few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my
network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found
DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I
supposed to install with some
specific invocation that I missed?
I don't know those answers, but I have 97%+ fixed IP installations regardless
of distro here, and nearly always installations are via HTTP. This is from
the installer's syslog from the Jessie installation I referred to upthread:
Jul 11 03:02:18 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: expert net.ifnames=0
ipv6.disable=1 netcfg/disable_dhcp=true netcfg/get_hostname=myhost
hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false tasks=standard
base-installer/install-recommends=false nosplash splash=0 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
vga=788
Unless I edited it on the fly, which I do not remember now a month later,
that cmdline resulted from a Grub (Legacy) stanza I created after reading
Debian network installation instructions. Key to avoiding DHCP at the outset
is the inclusion of netcfg/disable_dhcp=true while tasks=standard and
base-installer/install-recommends=false are about preventing litter from
other desktops' deps on a system intended to have TDE as its only DM. AFAIR, I created zero ordinary users until quite some
time after installation
was over and I had rebooted several times.
I guess I didn't know what to expect when I installed it. With me being used to
Slackware, I guess I was hoping that the installation software would prompt me for some
of the choices, when it turned out it didn't. And I've seen since then a bit
about how to make some of those choices with command-line arguments to the installer and
similar, but I didn't know that those would be necessary.
Back to reading the fine manual, I guess. :-)
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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M Dakin
12 Aug
12 Aug
6:14 p.m.
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On Wednesday 12 August 2015 11:49:56 am Felix Miata wrote:
Referring to the system's default behavior here.
A front end to xinit, it says.
I'm sure that the info I'm looking for has to be documented *somewhere*, but I
haven't found it yet... :-(
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 10:05
(UTC-0400):
It does indeed seem to be Debian doing it, since I've not gotten as far as getting
TDM installed here...
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Debian has decided not to allow GUI root
log-ins. It is not a case of
I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the
default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives available. > "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! root@myhost# whoami
root
root@myhost:~# ps -A | egrep 'mc|onsole'
1152 ? 00:00:01 konsole
1167 pts/2 00:00:00 mc
root@myhost:~# uname -a
Linux myhost 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) x86_64
GNU/Linux
root@gmyhost:~# grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
Not a problem for me as I've logged in as root in a text console, and also have mc
installed.
root@myhost:~# egrep 'root|wRoot'
/etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc
AllowRootLogin=true
SelectedUsers=root,...
No /etc/trinity here (yet?). And I can find nothing of the sort in any other config file
that I've looked at. I've got mc open on two of the four desktops, and am poking
around in assorted config files, but this stuff is so convoluted I'm having some
trouble sorting it all out.
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?
Man startx. Simply startx works here with TDE as the already
selected/default session.
startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde also works here, but it disregards my xrandr
display startup commands in /etc/X11/*.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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9:51 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:14:51 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
I'm sure that the info I'm looking for has to
be documented *somewhere*,
but I haven't found it yet... :-(
Any of this any good? I haven't had a chance to check it yet.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=change+debian+default+to+beable+to+login+…
Lisi
13 Aug
13 Aug
12:38 a.m.
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On Wednesday 12 August 2015 05:51:41 pm Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:14:51 Roy J. Tellason,
Sr. wrote:
I looked over some of that and a lot of it is for different systems (even though Debian is
contained in the search term) and a lot of it is pretty dated. I'd even seen some of
it before. :-)
What I'm partway through is plowing through all of the doc files that are on the
machine. Seems to me that the specifics about some aspects of the way things are set up
should be in there somewhere...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I'm sure that the info I'm looking for
has to be documented *somewhere*,
but I haven't found it yet... :-(
Any of this any good? I haven't had a chance to check it yet.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=change+debian+default+to+beable+to+login+…
10:58 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:14:51 -0400
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <rtellason(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 11:49:56 am Felix Miata
wrote:
Try creating a ~/.xinitrc for root with "exec starttde" inside (or try
starttde's full path). I
don't know if the system will pick up your xrandr settings with that setup, though,
since that's never been a concern for me (and I use a completely different distro
anyway).
E. Liddell
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 10:05
(UTC-0400):
A front end to xinit, it says.
I'm sure that the info I'm looking for has to be documented *somewhere*, but I
haven't found it yet... :-( Lisi Reisz wrote:
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?
Man startx. 
3:02 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, E. Liddell wrote:
Try creating a ~/.xinitrc for root with "exec
starttde" inside (or try starttde's full path). I
don't know if the system will pick up your xrandr settings with that setup, though,
since that's never been a concern for me (and I use a completely different distro
anyway).
can't the xandr stuff be put in .profile for root?
f.
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
-- Oscar Wilde
26 Jul
26 Jul
11:06 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
From: lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:54:30 +0100
Subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run eg KWrite or Konqueror as
root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
Lisi
Hi Lisi,
I'm not on a Debian setup right now, but depending of the distro, one of the following
command should work in Konsole:
On PCLinuxOS (if I remember well it works this way on Deb too):
su
(type your password)
(type the name of the app you want to launch as root)
exit (to quit super-user mode)
On Ubuntu:
sudo ((type the name of the app you want to launch)
(type your password)
It is not the same command on every distro, but it is most of the time combinations of su
and sudo.
Anyway you should be able to find easily a package with a name similar to tdesu or tdesudo
in Synaptic (my preferred one) or any package manager app. Or sometimes the name of the
app has changed to trinity-(the name of the app).
Hope it helps!
-Alexandre
27 Jul
27 Jul
8:30 a.m.
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Thanks, Alexandre for the reply.
On Monday 27 July 2015 00:06:39 Alexandre wrote:
And in Debian it won't launch because you are root and it is a GUI
program. :-( It will complain about lack of access to X.
From:
lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:54:30 +0100
Subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
In the absence of kdesu, or tdesu, how do you run eg KWrite or Konqueror
as root in 14 on Debian? Even gksu seems still to be missing this time.
I'm not on a Debian setup right now, but depending of the distro, one of
the following command should work in Konsole: On PCLinuxOS (if I remember
well it works this way on Deb too):
su
(type your password)
(type the name of the app you want to launch as root) exit (to quit super-user mode)
On Ubuntu:
sudo ((type the name of the app you want to launch)
(type your password)
It is not the same command on every distro, but it is most of the time
combinations of su and sudo.
Anyway you should be able to find easily a package with a name similar to
tdesu or tdesudo in Synaptic (my preferred one) or any package manager app.
Or sometimes the name of the app has changed to trinity-(the name of the
app).
Ah! I'll look for that.
I have been in the habit of alt-F2 -> kdesu kwrite -> password -> Kwrite
launches.
Hope it helps!
I'll look for tdesu via aptitude. Thanks.
Lisi
29 Jul
29 Jul
10:28 p.m.
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On Monday 27 July 2015 00:06:39 Alexandre wrote:
Anyway you should be able to find easily a package
with a name similar to
tdesu or tdesudo in Synaptic (my preferred one) or any package manager app.
Or sometimes the name of the app has changed to trinity-(the name of the
app).
No tdesu. But tdesudo and gksu are both there. So I installed gksu.
But it didn't work. I.e., <gksu kwrite. in the launcher produced a request
for the root password - but entering the root password had no effect.
Nothing at all happened, and a check with ps showed that nothing had been
launched. I tried all three of the programs I normally want to use this way,
and nada. :-(
So I purged gksu.
17 packets installed, one was removed. So now |I have 16 orphaned packages to
remove. :-( Wne I have looked it up.
Lisi
10:33 p.m.
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No tdesu. But tdesudo and gksu are both there. So I
installed gksu.
But it didn't work. I.e., <gksu kwrite. in the launcher produced a request
for the root password - but entering the root password had no effect.
Nothing at all happened, and a check with ps showed that nothing had been
launched. I tried all three of the programs I normally want to use this way,
and nada. :-(
So I purged gksu.
17 packets installed, one was removed. So now |I have 16 orphaned packages to
remove. :-( Wne I have looked it up.
Lisi
All of what you are writing here are just adding to the reasons why I don't
like Debian at all. At least Ubuntu adds some firmware pre-installed on top of Debian and
remove some disagreeable aspects of it. PCLinuxOS is so much better!
As soon as TDE R14.0.1 will be out, I'll build the new release of my remaster. This
time it will have less clutter and a smaller ISO size.
Have a great day!
-Alexandre
11:07 p.m.
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On Wednesday 29 July 2015 23:33:40 Alexandre wrote:
We all have our likes and dislikes - but what here is specific to Debian?
gksu is desktop specific surely. And what has firmware to do with this????
No tdesu. But
tdesudo and gksu are both there. So I installed gksu.
But it didn't work. I.e., <gksu kwrite. in the launcher produced a
request for the root password - but entering the root password had no
effect. Nothing at all happened, and a check with ps showed that nothing
had been launched. I tried all three of the programs I normally want to
use this way, and nada. :-(
So I purged gksu.
17 packets installed, one was removed. So now |I have 16 orphaned
packages to remove. :-( Wne I have looked it up.
Lisi
All of what you are writing here are just adding to the reasons why I don't
like Debian at all. At least Ubuntu adds some firmware pre-installed on top
of Debian and remove some disagreeable aspects of it. PCLinuxOS is so much
better!
As soon as TDE R14.0.1 will be out, I'll build the new release of my
remaster. This time it will have less clutter and a smaller ISO size.
Great. :-)) It is bit big to be a useful Live CD on older hardware at the
nmoment. I know - I have just tried to use it.
Have a great day!
:-) I'm about to go to bed - it is way past my bedtime. ;-)
Lisi
-Alexandre
10:52 p.m.
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On 07/29/2015 03:28 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
17 packets installed, one was removed. So now |I have
16 orphaned packages to
remove. :-(
'apt-get autoremove' will make quick work of that.
On 07/29/2015 03:33 PM, Alexandre wrote:
PCLinuxOS is so much better!
Maybe, but it's run by an authoritarian dictator who for a long time refused
to allow Trinity to even be discussed on the forum while ridiculing anyone
so Luddite that they wanted to use it, among other things. I used to use
PCLOS, but got tired of forced obsolescence and having to reinstall all my
systems just because he thought I should. I see now they've gone to a
rolling release, which might solve that problem, but I no longer trust him
with such control over my systems, so I'll probably stay away anyway.
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10:59 p.m.
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:52:25 -0700
From: dan(a)homestead-products.com
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On 07/29/2015 03:28 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Mageia is good too if you don't like Texstar. But now he accepts (more) the
existence of TDE and it is rolling-release since at least the 5 last years.
-Alexandre
17 packets installed, one was removed. So now |I
have 16 orphaned packages to
remove. :-(
'apt-get autoremove' will make quick work of that.
On 07/29/2015 03:33 PM, Alexandre wrote:
PCLinuxOS is so much better!
Maybe, but it's run by an authoritarian dictator who for a long time refused
to allow Trinity to even be discussed on the forum while ridiculing anyone
so Luddite that they wanted to use it, among other things. I used to use
PCLOS, but got tired of forced obsolescence and having to reinstall all my
systems just because he thought I should. I see now they've gone to a
rolling release, which might solve that problem, but I no longer trust him
with such control over my systems, so I'll probably stay away anyway.
--
11:16 p.m.
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On Wednesday 29 July 2015 23:52:25 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 07/29/2015 03:28 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
I knew that there was a command! The problem is just my memory. :-( Hence my
saying I would just have to look it up! Thank you.
(That is a disadvantage of the command line Alexandre - you actually have to
know the command. But the advantages, when you do, are legion, so that it is
well worth it IMHO.)
Thank for all your help Dan and Alexandre.
You will not be surprised to know, Dan, that the addition to the menu went
swimmingly - I was pleasantly surprised that I actually managed to do it
right. Thank you so much for that. I really must explore the menu some
time.
Now to file a) a bug - gksu and b) a wish-bug - tdesu.
After I've had some sleep.
Goodnight,
Lisi
17 packets installed, one was removed. So now |I
have 16 orphaned
packages to remove. :-(
'apt-get autoremove' will make quick work of that. 
30 Jul
30 Jul
2:06 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 27 July 2015 00:06:39 Alexandre wrote:
I think you use your own password (and your user has to be in /etc/sudoers).
Anyway you should be able to find easily a
package with a name similar to
tdesu or tdesudo in Synaptic (my preferred one) or any package manager
app.
Or sometimes the name of the app has changed to
trinity-(the name of the
app).
No tdesu. But tdesudo and gksu are both there. So I installed gksu.
But it didn't work. I.e., <gksu kwrite. in the launcher produced a request
for the root password - but entering the root password had no effect.
2:34 p.m.
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On Thursday 30 July 2015 15:06:56 Leonard T Harris wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Lisi Reisz
<lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That is supposed to be gksudo - or was last time I was reduced to using it.
But that would certainly explain it. Anyhow, it is resolved. I can use
tdesu now (root). tdesudo also exists, of course, but that would mean
setting up sudo and sudoers.
Thanks for the reply.
Lisi
On Monday 27 July 2015 00:06:39 Alexandre wrote:
I think you use your own password (and your user has to be in
/etc/sudoers). Anyway you should be able to find easily a
package with a name similar
to tdesu or tdesudo in Synaptic (my preferred one) or any package
manager
app.
Or sometimes the name of the app has changed to
trinity-(the name of
the app).
No tdesu. But tdesudo and gksu are both there. So I installed gksu.
But it didn't work. I.e., <gksu kwrite. in the launcher produced a
request for the root password - but entering the root password had no
effect.
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