Many questions

[Derek Broughton]

Martin J Hooper wrote:

> 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.

Not usually...  iirc, you'd need to do something with xhost to do that.  Use
"kdesu" instead of "sudo".
-- 
derek