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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Suse root problem. (Neil Baker)


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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:35:55 +0100
From: Neil Baker <neil@sgsr.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Suse root problem.
Message-ID: <526638EB.7080807@sgsr.co.uk>
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On 21/10/13 16:48, d.hockinbt wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "d.hockinbt" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>
> To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [bristol] OT drivers
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "david" <david@avoncliff.com>
>> To: <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 11:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: [bristol] OT drivers
>> I have just installed Suse 12.2 onto my 10 year old Advent laptop, to
>> dualboot with XPhome, and it installed perfectly from the LXF disk,
>> whilst a similar attempt with the previous v12.1 from LXF failed
>> miserably!.
>>
>> And after a nail-biting hour or two of downloading 285 (!) updates
>> from Suse, both Suse and Xp are runnng very happily, with Suse running
>> at what looks like double the speed of XP !!!
>>
>> Dave (Posset)
>
> However I DO find I have a problem!
>
> Whilst in Suse I can read any file on the windows partition, I cannot
> find any way of getting permission to write it back after editing!
>
> I can't find anyway of changing and signing in as root, to alter the
> permissions, which are greyed-out and listed as for the "owner".
>
> In earlier versionsof Suse, if I did anything that required a root
> access, even temporary, a box opened to invite me to sign in as root,
> and that lasted just until I completed the work I wanted to do.
>
> But Suse 12.2 isn't bringing up a sign-in box, and I can't find anywhere
> in the system for me to do this! The start button, bottom left, that
> brings up different menus, does have one line "change user", but nothing
> happens....
>
> The other "funny" - a black bottom border to the screen, behind which
> all "minimised" windows vanish for ever, today ISN'T there, thankfully,
> but I dread minimising anything, as it will again vanish into a black
> hole, iretrievably. Not a good move! Yesterday I had to crash the Linux
> as I had no means of closing programmes, as they had disappeared into
> the black "bit". So I have to just shrink windows on the desktop, and
> keep them clogging up the view. Why that black border appears, I don't
> know.
>
> All suggestions will be gratefully receivec, as long they don't
> recommend RTFM - humans are kinder at helping .....
>
> Dave (Posset) thinking he was making progress, as he IS liking Suse on
> this laptop, being infinitely faster (and fun) than XP on the same machine!
>
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If your graphical environment is KDE you can press ALT +F2 and type into
the box 'kdesu konsole'. You should then get a password dialogue and
after entering your root password you should get a command window with
root privileges. Alternatively, if you type 'kdesu dolphin' in the
ALT+F2 box you will get the file manager with root privileges.

--
Neil Baker.
Tel: 0117 960 3967.
Mob: 07974 748913.

Experience: knowing what not to do.



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