On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Stephen wrote:
> Ubuntu and its derivatives have specifically limited X so that it
> cannot be run as root, only as a user.
>
> This is why it complains, other distros that allow x to run as root
> are the ones who don't complain because it can spawn root X elemen
Ubuntu and its derivatives have specifically limited X so that it
cannot be run as root, only as a user.
This is why it complains, other distros that allow x to run as root
are the ones who don't complain because it can spawn root X elements.
this is done as a security choice.
IT wreaks unholy h
ROFL !!! One of the things I have always disliked about KDE is the
insistence that that jave to roll their own packages and name them with an
initial k or kde. I am sure there is sometimes a reason to do that but
with sudo? I hardly think there could be a real reason. Of course, I have
not yet
Agreed. Maybe kdesudo would play happier. But goofy stuff like that is
why I decided to switch away from kde.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Of course. And I did ignore it. However, sudo does not give those kinds
> of errors in other distros and derivatives where I have u
Of course. And I did ignore it. However, sudo does not give those kinds
of errors in other distros and derivatives where I have used it. Kind of
silly to give errors saying we know what you are doing and while it is
perfectly legitimate and the purpose of using sudo, we just thought we
would com
You're running a kde app as root, that's what the sudo thing does. It
tries to connect to your kde session and notices that it's owned by you and
not the UID of the process you're launching, and complains. If it works, I
say ignore it.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Anyone
Anyone know why these errors would occur from trying to edit a system file
in Kubuntu 11.10 using Kate?
> larry@hammerhead:~$ sudo kate /etc/lsb-release
> Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-larry" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> Error: "/tmp/kde-larry" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> Erro
