[plug] KDE problem

[Lawrie Abbott]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>> I've got a couple of Redhat 9 machines running KDE desktop and have 
>> the following problem. If I try and fire up konqueror as su ie "kdesu 
>> konqueror" then it bails out complaining  that /tmp/mcop-user  is not 
>> owned by the user(su).
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> root? 

Yes. But arrgh, it isnt doing it now (on this account at least). 
konqueror starts Ok....but "kfmclient openProfile filemanagement" wont.. 
some other issue now. I'll have to do more digging.

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>> Does anyone know of a fix for this?  I tried google and it sems 
>> others have the same experience  but I havent found any good solution.
>> ( The KDE website is down in some protest at the moment  too)
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> Perhaps a silly question, but why do you need to run konqueror as root?
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> Craig 


Well I guess i don't *need* to run konqueror at all, but  I was using it 
to browse thru files.

Lawrie