On Tuesday 21 December 2004 11:34 pm, Jim wrote:
I don't know how I'd even bring up KDE as root. I generally just su in a konsole and do whatever I need as root then exit. And, of course, it could be some non-permission error; probably is as I've seen explicit permission complaints elsewhere.
So, I guess the KDE Printer Manager isn't going to help. The CUPS web tool is actually very nice; I just don't know what it's missing to let me configure the printer.
I doubt this will help now, but knowledge is always good. I know I've learned from this. I don't know anything about 7.3, this works in 9.x. use sux - instead of su - as root > kmcshell printmgr kmcshell --list shows a lot of modules that can be loaded. I'm going to look closer at them over time. Another way to run a menu item as root would be to drag it from the menu to the desktop and copy it there. Right click on the icon created > properties > application tab > advanced options > check run as different user > type in root. Now when you click on the icon, it will prompt for root's password and run as root.
Thanks for the thoughts,
Just wish I could have had a good answer. No need for a reply to this. Good luck Doug