Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu?

[Chris Luck]

On 08/10/13 10:37, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> On 08/10/13 11:19, Chris Luck wrote:
>> On 08/10/13 08:57, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>> Dont you get rather messy menu system this way with a "mad
>>> mixture" of gnome and KDE applications?
>>
>> You do indeed.  You also have to be extremely careful when opening
>> a graphics program with root permissions.  If you use gksu where
>> you should use kdesu you can foul-up the permissions and leave a
>> program unusable until you've figured out what went wrong and how
>> to fix it.
>
> Never had this problem.


Thank you for pulling me up on that, I was mis-remembering the issue I
had.  On ferreted through the assorted notes that I keep I found it was
a case of starting kppp with sudo - which did upset the permissions.
Sorry for the noise.

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Regards,
Chris Luck