Many questions

[Martin J Hooper]

Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> If I need to make some changes in Control Center and I am asked to enter 
> my password, all it does is take my password and then go to this 
> introductory KDE Control Center page. Even if I return to the section I 
> wished to make changes to, again it is not in administrative mode and I 
> can't change anything.
> 
> Now I did activate root on this computer. However, root's password also 
> produces no results. I have a suspicion this problem has something to do 
> with dcopserver, but what can I do?

In a terminal do

sudo kcontrol

put your password in and it should work.