Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> pk wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I hate to say it this way, but hal just plain sucks.  I may play with it
>>> some later but I'm getting sick of hal big time.  It's starting to
>>> really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
>>>
>>
>> Then you might like this:
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009/Notes#head-75cccc4e4968dd043dcf2166dff61afd7d0d06c5
>>
>> I know I do... :-)
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Peter K
>>
>>
>>
>
> Well, I hope whatever replaces hal  is easier to configure.  Then again,
> I can't really imagine it being any harder tho.  I haven't played with
> it any since my last post.  I just don't feel like getting ticked off
> right now.  Trying to play with hal tends to do that pretty quick.
>
> Right now, I'm in the new KDE 4.  Trying to let it grow on me a little.
> It is getting better tho.  ;-)  I can tell they are working on it and
> adding new stuff and fixing old stuff too.  I'm still trying to figure
> out how to get a root Konsole tho.  All I see is a user one.  Oh well.

Alt-F2
type "kdesu konsole" into the box
press enter

:)

I believe the root konsole shortcut was removed from KDE4 because
running entire sessions as root is discouraged in general... you can
always add it to the menu if you miss it.