[trinity-users] Most kdesu problems seem fixed - tde-users

9 Feb 2012

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:

112a113,114
...
  ### 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." 118a131,134
...

 ###################################

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