On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:03 pm, Ken Thompson wrote:
> > Phooy ! ! !  I like single click mouse action and have yet to find a way
> > to get itn the root file manager short of logging in as root and changing
> > it in Kcontrol center. There is NO administrative mode in the mouse
> > section,sooooo, you can only change for the immidiate user.
>
> Open a console
> SU to root
> typer kcontrol and hit enter
>
> voila, running KDE Control Center with root priviledges while logged in as
> a user.  Use this method to start any gui program that needs root
> priviledge.
Yeah, I guess I knew that, I was just irritated that someone would say there 
was never ANY reason to log into a root GUI.. There reasons, although not the 
same for every user. The whole reason for my turning to Linux was to have the 
choice and the options to work with MY computer as I saw fit, not the way the 
author of the OS wanted/foced me to.
-- 
Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR
Payette, Idaho


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