Adept Manager crashes!

[Willy K. Hamra]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 316097 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> When I try to run Adept it crashes, then I try to run it from a
>> console, same thing happens, below is the output, can anyone help me?
>>
>> [sudo] password for pierre:
> 
> Well, there you go...  DON'T use "sudo" to execute gui apps.  Use 
> "kdesudo".  You're lucky it just didn't work.  Sometimes when you do 
> this, it _does_ work - and then makes it impossible for you to run some 
> apps as a normal user, because root has ended up owning files in your 
> home directory.

actually no. the sysmptoms you are describing, Derek, are when you run a 
GUI app from root. using "sudo su" or "sudo -i" and then running a GUI 
app. as for sudo and kdesudo, they're the same. kdesudo provides a GUI 
for entering the password, but then, it uses sudo in the backend.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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