Tribe 5 and konqueror.

[Fintan]

ribe is looking good. There are a few things:

something about kdesudo:

No command arguments supplied!
Usage: kdesudo [-u <runas>] <command>
KdeSudo will now exit...

at boot into desktop.

Konqueror (filemanager) eitherdoesn't open or it opens at the second try and/or crashes.

kdesu konqueror opens in my user dir. not in root.

harddisks & filessystems is back

apart from that I am happy.

[kubicle]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

kdesu konqueror opens in my user dir. not in root.

This is probably due to the fact that kdesudo behaves a bit different from the 'good old' kdesu. Last I checked, kdesudo replaces kdesu in Tribe 5 (backs up /usr/bin/kdesu as /usr/bin/kdesu.dist and makes /usr/bin/kdesu a symlink to kdesudo). So you can restore the old kdesu behaviour by undoing the change (to have the option to use either kdesudo or kdesu)

There are a few valid reasons why one might prefer kdesu over kdesudo (kdesudo does not support the options that are available in kdesu, for example...at least not yet).

[Fintan]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

Thank you.

So you can restore the old kdesu behaviour by undoing the change (to have the option to use either kdesudo or kdesu)

How do I go about that?

[kubicle]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

How do I go about that?

The simplest way is to rename /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib to /usr/bin/kdesu (overwriting the symlink). If you do it this way, chances are updates to kdesudo package will undo the change.

A bit more elegant solution is to create a symlink /usr/local/bin/kdesu that points to /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib. As /usr/local/bin commonly preceeds /usr/bin in $PATH, running kdesu will actually run kdesu.distrib (the old kdesu) after this change.

EDIT: here's a one-liner for the latter option:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib /usr/local/bin/kdesu && rehash

[Fintan]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

Thank you for that. I like the elegant solution, especially as I have never created a symlink. A great excuse to learn right?

[kubicle]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

as I have never created a symlink.

EDIT: here's a one-liner for the latter option:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib /usr/local/bin/kdesu && rehash

[Fintan]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib /usr/local/bin/kdesu && rehash
[sudo] password for fintan:
bash: rehash: command not found
fintan@fintanws2:~$

[kubicle]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

bash: rehash: command not found

Sorry, I've been using alternative shells for a while, bash doesn't have rehash :P

No worries though, it's not a necessity (it would just recheck the programs in your path to make sure the right kdesu is run, but a shell will do that automatically when started)

You can run 'which kdesu' to see that the correct one will run (/usr/local/bin/kdesu)

[Fintan]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

so this will do it?

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib /usr/local/bin/kdesu

I am in mepis 7.0 beta now finding out a way to get vmplayer installed but will do that as soon as I get back to gutsy.

Thanks again

Cheers
Fintan

[kubicle]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

so this will do it?

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kdesu.distrib /usr/local/bin/kdesu

Yes, but you should already have link if you ran the previous command (even if the rehash failed, the first part of the command was run succesfully)

[Fintan]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

Thank you that worked.

What about konqueror? It likes to crash a lot lately, the last time forced me to hard reboot which nuked my vmwindows in the process. Could this have anything to do with strigi? That seems to be a hungry little devil. (95% of user resources in idle)

[Elswood]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

My konqueror is starting to crash frequently too!

[Fintan]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

Well, I uninstalled the strigi search aid. I couldn't find a way to keep it from starting at boot.
Konqueror seems to be civilized now.

The strigi daemon was using 95% of my use resources. I don't need a hog which I use once every dark moon if ever to waste my power.

I don't know if that is the solution but for now it works.

[dibl]

Re: Tribe 5 and konqueror.

I couldn't find a way to keep it from starting at boot.

Me neither. There should be a way to stop it from starting in the first place, but I can't find it. >