[newbie] Start KDE application as root

2004-05-30 Thread Video 4Linux
Is it possible in KDE to start a certain KDE application as 'root' when I'm logged in as a regular user? Greetings Bas _ Talk with your online friends with MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/

Re: [newbie] Start KDE application as root

2004-05-30 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 17:49, Video 4Linux wrote: Is it possible in KDE to start a certain KDE application as 'root' when I'm logged in as a regular user? Greetings Bas use su in a terminal enter app. name -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god.

Re: [newbie] Start KDE application as root

2004-05-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 00:49, Video 4Linux wrote: Is it possible in KDE to start a certain KDE application as 'root' when I'm logged in as a regular user? Greetings Bas You can always open up a terminal, su to root, then fire up the application you desire. stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Start KDE application as root

2004-05-30 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 10:49, Video 4Linux wrote: Is it possible in KDE to start a certain KDE application as 'root' when I'm logged in as a regular user? Greetings Bas Alt-F2 kdesu your_application Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Start KDE application as root

2004-05-30 Thread Video 4Linux
Thanx everyone. That's what I was looking for. From: PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Start KDE application as root Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:56:50 +0300 On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 17:49, Video 4Linux wrote: Is it possible in KDE to start a

[newbie] web based database program

2004-05-30 Thread Eric Huff
What are your favorites for web based database programs? I have a project where i will have many items, each with a bunch of keywords, and i need to be able to search for all items containing a keyword, sort them by other keywords, blah blah blah. It will be accessed on the web (or thru a

[newbie] Mozart Sound System / legacy

2004-05-30 Thread David E. Fox
(I tried posting to expert, but it hasn't shown up.) I'm trying to assist a new convert to Mandrake get his sound card up and running. It's a Mad16 thing, and as such one has to use sndconfig to get the card to work (ISA). In fact, I used to have one of these cards a few years ago, and it really

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 19 May 2004 06:15:07 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's IBM for ya. Nonsense. I've had one of their Deskstars in 24/7 service since 10/2001, and have never had to defrag it :). stephen kuhn - owner --

[newbie] SANE and scanners

2004-05-30 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys I'm having a bit of a problem getting my scanner to work under 10CE. There appear to be two scanners detected and the output of sane-find-scanner is : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]# sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you

[newbie] Pop-up Blocker in Epiphany

2004-05-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Is there a pop-up blocker for Epiphany. I found some sources on a web site, but I have been unable to get them to work. Thanks for any help you can provide. I am running 10.0 Official and Gnome. -Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] web based database program

2004-05-30 Thread robin
Eric Huff wrote: What are your favorites for web based database programs? I have a project where i will have many items, each with a bunch of keywords, and i need to be able to search for all items containing a keyword, sort them by other keywords, blah blah blah. It will be accessed on the web

[newbie] Argh! Accented characters (again)

2004-05-30 Thread Steve Mansfield
On my SuSE 8.2 system I can type accented characters on this UK keyboard by using AltGr as a 'dead key' - ie, AltGr-; then e gives é. I just tried that on a Mandrake 10.0 Community installation and ... nothing. No accents. I've Googled on this and have found loads of highly confusing and

Re: [newbie] Pop-up Blocker in Epiphany

2004-05-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 30 May 2004 22:23, Matt Harrison wrote: Is there a pop-up blocker for Epiphany. I found some sources on a web site, but I have been unable to get them to work. Thanks for any help you can provide. I am running 10.0 Official and Gnome. -Matt Dunno. But if you install privoxy (in

[newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-30 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Have had no problems with sound throughout the day, receiving system notifications, listening to streaming audio off and on, etc. Just tried opening up xmms via Streamtuner, and received a crash notification: The application Sounderserver (artsd) crashed and caused the signal

[newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-30 Thread frankieh
Hi Guys, I have a small problem I'd like to get some advice on. I'm expected to repair a server that was delivered some time back, and it had a fried motherboard. The CPU in the system is an Athlon 1.2gig (Thunderbird). So I went to my wholesalers, and all they are selling now is Nforce2 and