I've been cleaning up things on my main PC to prepare to upgrade it from 8.04 to 9.04; on the way I was double-checking with my Jaunty computers to make sure I'd have the same functionality. One thing that seems to be missing on my 9.04 computers is the "System Services" module, which I honestly use all the time to start, stop, restart and toggle start-at-boot things like sshd, distcc, LCDd, etc etc. Basically I love how easy it makes it to control daemons.
Unfortunately, it seems entirely missing from KDE4, and I know from checking my 13" laptop (which has both KDE3.5 and KDE4.3 installed on Jaunty) that KDE3.5's ability to load the "System Services" module seems to be broken by Jaunty, so using the KDE3.5 version of systemsettings on Jaunty to get at this functionality seems not to be an option either.
I mean, I'm not adverse to commandline methods, not at all, but it's really quite nice to have a straightforward GUI listing all the services, whether they're running or not, whether they start on boot or not, at which runlevel they do so, and allowing you to fiddle with all of that. So what's a user to do?
Unfortunately, it seems entirely missing from KDE4, and I know from checking my 13" laptop (which has both KDE3.5 and KDE4.3 installed on Jaunty) that KDE3.5's ability to load the "System Services" module seems to be broken by Jaunty, so using the KDE3.5 version of systemsettings on Jaunty to get at this functionality seems not to be an option either.
I mean, I'm not adverse to commandline methods, not at all, but it's really quite nice to have a straightforward GUI listing all the services, whether they're running or not, whether they start on boot or not, at which runlevel they do so, and allowing you to fiddle with all of that. So what's a user to do?
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