On 4/13/05, Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I've just updated to KDE 3.4 > > > > I go into kcontrol as a normal user and then go to the login manager. I click > > on administrator mode and enter the root password. Then I see the > > "loading..." mesage, after a few seconds then it takes me back to the blue > > "welcome to the KDE control center" screen - and I am NOT in administrator > > mode. > > > > Any Ideas?? > > > > Workaround is to bring up Konsole, su to root, and then run kcontrol. > That will start the Control Center as root. > Maybe posting this question to the kde-redhat mailing list can get more responses. I know that the maintainer of the kde-redhat repo checks there frequently, and many times I've seen him solving those kinds of problems personally and very quickly. Check: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kde-redhat-users -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University Registered Linux user number 381680 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If at first you don't succeed... ...skydiving is not for you.