Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

2005-12-18 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:03:03 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: > My sugestion may not have been clear. What I have > in mind is that you start a normal KDE session as a > nonprivileged user, with all the usual GUI glop on the > screen that KDE normally presents when you do that. > (It might even mak

Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

2005-12-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
My sugestion may not have been clear. What I have in mind is that you start a normal KDE session as a nonprivileged user, with all the usual GUI glop on the screen that KDE normally presents when you do that. (It might even make sense to verify that you can start normal X clients like xclock fro

Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

2005-12-18 Thread Bruce Labitt
Michael ODonnell wrote: If you can't diagnose your problems one workaround may be to start KDE as a nonprivileged user and then say: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...which should get you authenticated as root and then tunnel all your X traffic back to your nonprivileged session, which should at l

Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

2005-12-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
If you can't diagnose your problems one workaround may be to start KDE as a nonprivileged user and then say: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...which should get you authenticated as root and then tunnel all your X traffic back to your nonprivileged session, which should at least allow you to run th

HOWTO? run k3b as root

2005-12-18 Thread Bruce Labitt
Sorry to bother everyone with this simple stuff. Having a devil of a time getting my system backed up so I can upgrade things. Sometime in the past month or so (probably longer as I rarely try it) I've lost the ability to run KDE as root. I want to run k3b as root so I can backup all my sett