On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> pk wrote: >>> >>>> Dale wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I hate to say it this way, but hal just plain sucks. I may play with it >>>>> some later but I'm getting sick of hal big time. It's starting to >>>>> really leave a bad taste in my mouth. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Then you might like this: >>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009/Notes#head-75cccc4e4968dd043dcf2166dff61afd7d0d06c5 >>>> >>>> I know I do... :-) >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> >>>> Peter K >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Well, I hope whatever replaces hal is easier to configure. Then again, >>> I can't really imagine it being any harder tho. I haven't played with >>> it any since my last post. I just don't feel like getting ticked off >>> right now. Trying to play with hal tends to do that pretty quick. >>> >>> Right now, I'm in the new KDE 4. Trying to let it grow on me a little. >>> It is getting better tho. ;-) I can tell they are working on it and >>> adding new stuff and fixing old stuff too. I'm still trying to figure >>> out how to get a root Konsole tho. All I see is a user one. Oh well. >>> >> >> Alt-F2 >> type "kdesu konsole" into the box >> press enter >> >> :) >> >> I believe the root konsole shortcut was removed from KDE4 because >> running entire sessions as root is discouraged in general... you can >> always add it to the menu if you miss it. >> >> >> > > I'll give that a try. I tend to restore a saved session anyway. uhhhh, > I couldn't find the option to edit the menu like in KDE 3. It used to > be in Applications then Settings. The updating tool is there but not > the editing one. > > Dale
It should be available by running kmenuedit (if you have KDE3 and KDE4 installed at the same time, be sure you're running the correct version). In my KDE4-only system it is in /usr/bin/kmenuedit
