> Firstly my thanks and congratulations to the Trinity project for such > great work and the support for Debian. It is my desktop of choice for > Debian Squeeze and looks really nice, more so than the (old) kde > defaults. In fact I have run Trinity (ubuntu packsges) on Debian > Squeeze since last November. It idles at around 100MB ram usage. > > I now have a fresh Squeeze install with Trinity from the new > Trinity-Debian repos. This was done using debootstrap and chroot. > Trinity-kde was installed with apt-get (in the chroot) using a text > list of specific packages. I use these methods to minimise bloat. > > The only issue is, kdesu. I saw an earlier post on this but no > resolution. Is nobody else getting this? > > I can't change the clock or get root from kcontrol, kuser, etc. The > workaround is sudo or sux (/opt/trinity/bin needs to go in roots > $PATH) in a konsole to open kde apps > > I do not like to use sudo by preference but in this case I have set my > user in /etc/sudoers. (works as expected otherwise, e.g. <sudo kwrite> > is successful) > > Ideally I would like to disable sudo altogether and just use su, sux and > kdesu. > > kdesudo-trinity is installed. > > In my old Squeeze install I fixed kdesu by adding a text file > ~/.kde3/share/config/kdesurc containing: > > [super-user-command] > super-user-command=su > > No luck with that on the new install > > In konsole: > > dzz@exelinux:~$ kdesudo kwrite > /usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1: couldn't query Security extension on display > ":0.0" > No protocol specified > > kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > dzz@exelinux:~$ kdesu kwrite > /usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1: couldn't query Security extension on display > ":0.0" > No protocol specified > > kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > > > . Any ideas what is wrong? > I do not know of a workaround at this point, but here is some additional information I found: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/9786/how-to-run-gui-apps-with-another-user/ Can you post the output of: ls -l /opt/trinity/bin/kdesu Thanks! Tim