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Hi,
I will ceratinly keep you in mind. Just got a new Laptop with XP Home installed. I partitioned with Partition Magic first. I tried to install Red Hat v9.0, but it kept hanging early in the process. Decided to try SuSE 8.2. It installed flawlessly. Recognized every component. This is strange because I have a desktop on which I tried to install SuSE 8.2 and had a terrible time, but Red Hat 9.0 installed without a hitch. Go figure.
Cheers. RayFCL0.

Boy, am I glad I ran into you! I have a couple of questions specifically regarding SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.1

First, why is it that no matter which account I'm logged on as (except root) when I run the file manager with super user privileges, it loads the window, then quits immediately. Very frustrating.

Second, why is it that when I use the KDE configuration tool to change the logon screen appearance, it no longer recognizes the changes? It did the first couple of times, then it just ignored everything I changed.

Also, I can no longer suspend a logged in session. There was a time after installing KDE 3.1 when I could stay logged on as myself, and log on with another account, keeping the first session suspended. That disappeared as well.

I've been through as many config files as I can think of, but I haven't yet figured out what to edit to correct these little annoyances. And they are just that, nothing earth-shattering. But I'd like to be able correct them for a couple of reasons: a) to gain back the flexibility I once had, and b) to increase my knowlege of KDE and Linux.

I appreciate you help with this, thanks in advance.

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Original von leftbas


First, why is it that no matter which account I'm logged on as (except root) when I run the file manager with super user privileges, it loads the window, then quits immediately. Very frustrating.

Due to whatever reason konqueror crashes if you want to run it as root in a user session.
Dunno what is causing this, do know that it is a known issue.
SuSE 8.1 however does not have this problem
Have u already upgraded to kde 3.1.2?

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Second, why is it that when I use the KDE configuration tool to change the logon screen appearance, it no longer recognizes the changes? It did the first couple of times, then it just ignored everything I changed.

loggin of suse is quite a mess.
Please look at /etc/opt/kde2 and /etc/opt/kde3 and link the file kdmrc in both directories with the one in /opt/kde3 to check if that solves the problem.

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Also, I can no longer suspend a logged in session. There was a time after installing KDE 3.1 when I could stay logged on as myself, and log on with another account, keeping the first session suspended. That disappeared as well.

you can still run another session, start konsole, login with another account (su username, and type:
[code:1]startx -- :1[/code:1]
(notice the whitespace for and after '--' )
however this option should be present in kmenu, or under the rmb when clicking on your desktop.

Hope these answers help a bit.

Rinse