Problems w/ KDE4

[Frode M. Døving]

At Tuesday 25 December 2007 02:22, you 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.

For suspend I use the command 'sudo pmi action suspend' in konsole.
Depending on what 'pmi capabilities' returns, you can probably also use 'sudo pmi action hibernate'.
> 
> 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
>

Have a look at http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Getting_Started/Build/KDE4#Locked_sessions

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fdoving