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

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

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'll give that a try.  I tend to restore a saved session anyway.  uhhhh,
> I couldn't find the option to edit the menu like in KDE 3.  It used to
> be in Applications then Settings.  The updating tool is there but not
> the editing one.
>
> Dale

It should be available by running kmenuedit (if you have KDE3 and KDE4
installed at the same time, be sure you're running the correct
version). In my KDE4-only system it is in /usr/bin/kmenuedit