Problems w/ KDE4

[Jonathan Jesse]

On 12/24/07, Michael Anderson <nosrednaekim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007 17:56:15 Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > Good evening,
> >
> > I have been running the RC2 packages of KDE4 following the instructions
> > posted on KUbuntu.org and am running into several problems. Currently
> > KNetworkManager is not starting up or at least showing in the system tray
> > to allow me to connect ot various wireless networks (need to launch it
> > manually), I cannot suspend or hibernate, and also cannot run any problems
> > from the Application Launcher that requires sudo permissions.
>
> I  can launch apps requiring admin access (kdesudo) from krunner without a
> problem. I don't use knetworkmanager, so I don't know about that. I have
> noticed that the suspend command from the shutdown dialog doesn't work. For
> me however, the largest problem is the lack of a working lock screen. well
> rather, a unlockable lock screen. :D
>
> Michael Anderson (nosrednaekim)
> >
> > Anyone else having these types of problems? If the answer is to compile
> > from svn do I still have follow all the steps of compiling cmake, qt and
> > the rest for updates or are there different/simpler steps? Also compiling
> > from source do how do I need to set things up to run as my primary user.
> >
> > Thanks for all the future help, tyring to learn as much as I can over the
> > holiday break
> >
> > Jonathan
>
>
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I would echo your hope for both the ability to unlock a session and to
also suspend.  Seems silly to have to boot into kde3 when I need to
make sure my screen can lock and i need to suspend, etc... THough
there is probably a better way to do it