Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1487 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 August 2010 12:28:51 HG wrote:
> I like to use kate for system
management file editing... i.e. I su to
> root and then open kate that
conveniently saves sessions of multiple
> files. In 11.3 I get this:
loota:/data1/home> su
> Password:
> loota:/data1/home # kate &
> [1] 4373
loota:/data1/home # kate(4373): Session bus not found
> KCrash:
Application 'kate' crashing...
>
sock_file=/root/.kde4/socket-loota/kdeinit4__0
> Warning: connect() failed:
: No such file or directory
> KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching
directly.
> drkonqi(4374): Session bus not found
>
>
> [1]+  Exit 253     
          kate
> loota:/data1/home #
>
> And the same happens for kwrite.
Both work for the main user though
> (when started from the terminal). What
should I do? Currently I'm
> editing the files in good ol emacs

As your
normal user:

"kdesu /usr/bin/kate"

This starts kate as root, but preserves
the environment needed.

Will

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