Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Why not just use alt-M to activate administrator mode?
Why not just use alt-M to activate administrator mode?
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Doing so highlights another known bug... when you enter your password correctly, it dumps you back to the regular user view, prompting you to enter Administrator mode again. Lovely.
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Hi,
I can just tell you that this problem, with you being unable to see the "admininstrator" button and the inabilty of actualy changing network setting was a very well known problem in Hoary as well. There are some so called workarounds for it, but the problem sometimes seem to go away and then come back for some reason unexpectedly Its amazing that the developers missed something like this, but it goes to show that not too many of the developers could be using Kubuntu as their Desktop of choice, as they would have experienced it as well! Quite a few people are experiencing this and it is thus not isolated cases. Just a comment, if you set up your network correctly on installation and never need to reconfigure. you would most probably never experience this.
Lets try and give the developers a clear picture of what is happening and how, so that they could come up with a solution. These chaps are luckily very helpfull and will be challenged by this I am sure.
Regards
MatchlessRegards<br />Matchless<br /><br />Proudly kubuntu!Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
This problem sux but here is a few ways i have worked around it..
Changed desktop res to 800x600 and then back to 1024x768 and then was able to hit admin button..
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Slid the kde panel to the left of the screen and then was able to access the admin button..
Not a fix but might get you out of trouble.Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
I added bug 18248 for the window-size problem.
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18248Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Additional comment added: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18248#c1Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Hello,
I just apply my comment to let people know how I'm disappointed by this new version of kubuntu. Please don't flame me because it's free and that command line could do it best : those are wrong ways, aren't we all linuxers here ?
Yes I know a great team has brought this to the world last week...
BUT, I've been choosing ubuntu for a lot of servers I setup and catter for during the past year since I really LIKE this distro and it's spirit.
When I saw up a kde version coming, all packaged I began to hope that I'll be able to have a *NICE* desktop to provide to end user who were confused about XP and whom I could bring an alternative.
The problem of the Admin button is minor for me as I can do my proper network settings with ifconfig for instance. It even could be acceptable if it was only that, because I could go and say "well, go and get me a coffee, please" while I would go to the terminal typing the few commands needed to end up the setup of the box...
BUT it is only one edge of a more genral problem : the whole desktop comes with properly awful defaults settings, making applications menus and buttons more than 1 cm high (half an inch !), windows opening out of the screen, etc.
And some apps won't change their behaviour even if you change the Fonts settings in the settings panel : the GUI for Apt for example (sorry, I don't remember it's name), which is a marvellous tool to show to switchers, and that is now unshowable because of its ugly look.
So yes, I'm very disappointed, hoping those will be corrected by the team. Sorry if some team members find me unpleasant, but let me say that I speak like this beacause I'd love to see a great product, and it's not far, but still too much.
I'd be proud to help them getting the GUI look more acceptable for what I'm able to do.
MichelComment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Hello again,
Following your suggestion I made a wider tour in the wiki discovering all the working in place... impressive anyway
I'm afraid not to be able to join the team for the moment as I've already got many associative concerns that take me lots of time already, but taking a little time all over the different subjects gave me some ideas of where I could give a hand.
There's still much job to do, and kubuntu 5.10, while promisefull, won't be my XP-killer distrib this year again
I'll have to fall back to ubuntu... pff, nearly getting used to gnome in the end :P
MichelComment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Try holding down the Alt key whilst dragging the window upwards with the mouse.Originally posted by cebesius
But it won't help as you just go round in circles with the 'administration button' needing to be clicked again and again and again...........
However try this from a terminal:
kdesu systemsettings
type in your password and you already have admin privaleges -- BUT there seems to be a bug (which I'm in the process of reporting) that if you need a 'gateway' (ie. 192.168.0.1) then it keeps ignoring it even though it *Apply[s)* it. I had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces before I could get back on the internet >
Blessings,
NigelIt's not a problem - it's a learning opportunity!Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Possible fix for KDE 3.4.3
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8681#c59Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
it worked for me.Originally posted by Patrick
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Glad to hear thatOriginally posted by goldenmacit worked for me.
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
Try
$ sudo systemsettings
Will open the System Settings app in Administrator mode.Comment
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Re: Can't access Admin mode, it's off the screen!
it seems (to me at least) the problem occurs much more often in the release version of breezy than the beta version. for example i changed the network settings in the beta version with no problem but now i have all the problems described in this thread with the release version.
also imho there is something fundamentally wrong in having to type in a command in terminal mode to start a gui app for it to work (even if it works).
also if linux is to seriously challenge windows as a consumer os *everthing* should be done in gui, imho again.
if the problems are limited to kubuntu and not ubuntu then maybe the team is spread too thin? maybe they should just focus on ubuntu (gnome)?Comment
(If you're Kubuntu)
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