Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[John Lamb <J.D.Lamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

C Hamel wrote:
> Three things:
> (1)When attempting to logout of KDE & shutdown the box I am everlastingly sent 
> to the login screen and have to select 'shutdown' AND enter root's password 
> before the box will actually shutdown.  This started happening after the 
> online updates were installed w/YOU.

Try Yast > Security and Users > Security Settings. You may find only 
root can logout.

> (2)When SuSE9 Pro was first installed, pressing the power switch logged me out 
> lf KDE & shutdown the box by default.  No longer, and this, too, seems to 
> have changed post-installation of online updates.

No idea about that one.

> (3)In the Control Center, under KDE Components, is something else called 
> Session Manager ...and the settings therein will not hold!  I select anything 
> other than 'Login as different user' and 'Apply', and the next time I boot 
> the box that change is gone --if it takes that long, which often is does not.

I've had some similar problems with KDE components but I can't trace 
them. I suspect some configuration file is set to read-only, but I can't 
find such a file.

> As an aside, the AMD-optimized kernel was listed as one of the updates and I 
> reluctantly updated though I have an Intel P4.  I wondered why it was 
> auto-checked in the listing, but since I'm new to SuSE...

There was a posting about this recently. IIRC, it's not to be worried about.


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