Re: Help with KDE control center

From: Gustavo Seabra (gustavo.seabra_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/14/05

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    On 4/13/05, Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca> wrote:
    > kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com wrote:
    > > I've just updated to KDE 3.4
    > >
    > > I go into kcontrol as a normal user and then go to the login manager. I click
    > > on administrator mode and enter the root password. Then I see the
    > > "loading..." mesage, after a few seconds then it takes me back to the blue
    > > "welcome to the KDE control center" screen - and I am NOT in administrator
    > > mode.
    > >
    > > Any Ideas??
    > >
    >
    > Workaround is to bring up Konsole, su to root, and then run kcontrol.
    > That will start the Control Center as root.
    >

    Maybe posting this question to the kde-redhat mailing list can get
    more responses. I know that the maintainer of the kde-redhat repo
    checks there frequently, and many times I've seen him solving those
    kinds of problems personally and very quickly. Check:

    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kde-redhat-users 

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