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gwyn

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Saturday, February 14th 2004, 9:03pm

Konqueror 3.2 - SuperUser mode problem

In versions of KDE/Konqueror up to now, selecting K->System->More Programs->File Manager - Super User Mode gave me konqueror with the File Manager profile and allowed me to edit files in eg. Kwrite/Kate by clicking on them (as you might expect). The normal File Manager did much the same but disallowed saving of files that didn't belong to me.

I have now moved to KDE 3.2 and find that instead of coming up with the File Manager profile, Konqueror comes up as a web browser. Not a disaster as I can just change profile and all works as before, but annoying. Has anyone else found this or, perhaps can tell me what error I have committed?

I have tried changing the behaviour of the menu command to "kfmclient openProfile filemanagement" (like the menu item "Personal Files (Home)) but, although it works, I can no longer open a (KDE) text editor by clicking on a file.

For background my system is:
Kernel 2.6
Linux From Scratch 5.0 (slightly upgraded)
KDE 3.2.0 (all packages)
QT 3.3.0

KDE 3.1 -> 3.1.94 all worked on the above system as expected. QTDIR, KDEDIR & KDEDIRS all point to the expected places for the new QT/KDE.

Any views much appreciated.

Gwyn

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Monday, February 16th 2004, 6:49pm

I might be completely wrong about this, but the problem may be file associations for "root."
My suggestion would be to open Control Center as root and change file associations for the text files to open the program that you want.

In other words, when you are running konqueror as root, the file associations that work are for the root user, not the non-root user.

Hope this helps, but I am a newbie.
Lawrence

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Monday, February 16th 2004, 9:04pm

Thanks for the reply, Lawrence.

I stated the problem badly. I can open files from within Konqueror ok, it's the startup mode of Konqueror itself I find strange. If I call Konqueror with no parameters (comand line or menu, SU or user) I get a web browser instead of a file manager. If I call "kfmclient openProfile filemanager" as a user, it works as expected and I can edit files. If I do the same with "run as different user" set to root, the filemanager works, but I can no longer edit files.

Does this happen for you? If so, it's a bug and I'll report it as such. If not, then I'm being stupid in some new way :( and am looking for a solution. As I said, it's only in 3.2 that this happens.

Cheers

Gwyn (Noobie too)

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Sunday, February 22nd 2004, 4:04pm

I have the same problem.
Having the file manager open up as a web browser is
rather useless if one wants su privileges.

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Sunday, February 22nd 2004, 11:17pm

Not entirely -- hold down [alt] and type "svf" to get the file manager; you're still in su mode.

As a matter of interest, which distro are you using? Did you have any problems compiling Kde 3.2? I can't seem to compile kdesdk under LFS 5.0, but that's another story...