Hello, try to run System settings via:
kdesudo systemsettings You can later also change the menu entry to this command (if it will work). 2011/10/12 Harry Putnam <[email protected]> > Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes: > > > Running wheezy > > > > On a recently installed kde desktop environment, I'm getting confused > > about being prompted when attempting to make certain changes. > > > > I get a prompt that is about authentication. A drop down list says > > `Select user', however my user that I'm logged in as is not there, nor > > is root. And yet I cannot continue without making a selection. > > > > I don't understand what is expected of me there. Surely I would not > > want to select another user to have permission to alter my desktop. > > > > Here is a sequence: > > > ,---- > | >>From main menu/system settings/ Login screen/ > | > In the font selector use `choose' button to change font and size/ > | > Say `OK' then press `apply', at that point an authentication dialog > | > pops up: > | > > | > Administrator authorization is > | > required to change the login > | > Manager settings. > | > > | > An application is attempting to perform an > | > action that requires privileges > | > Authentication is required to perform this > | > action > | > > | > ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- > | > > | > Then a dropdown list that says `select user' when I drop the list > | > down none of them are my user, nor root. > | > > | > How is that supposed to work? > `---- > > Since this thread seems to have died, I'd lick to ask if any experienced > user here can say whether what I described in OP is in fact a bug, or if > it does not happen on their installation. > > To summarize: > > > 1) Following the recipe quoted above. (inside the boxquote some 12 to 20 > lines above this one.) > > On the dialog described their, the dropdown list only shows other users. > Not me and not root. > > Am I completely misunderstanding what this is supposed to do or is it a > small bug and my user and root should be on that list? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
