From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 16:52:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC55837B403 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GIJ00G69OYUZQ@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:52:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:52:08 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: OT: KDE 2.2 various issues To: fs.mail@wanadoo.be Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B859728.9020108@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010809 References: <20010823234002.05E6F49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Sonnemans wrote: > Since I saw some great workarounds on this list for some of the problems I > exprienced with KDE2.2 on FreeBSD 4.4 Pre. I would like to try my luck with > some more open issues: > > - It seems Konquerer runs as Root. When I (try) to create a program shortcut > on the desktop, unpack an tar archive from the file browser, the created > files are owned by root. This truly annoying since I have to su to change the > file permissions. Also it creates a gaping *security hole* with unpacked > archives containing executables. Sounds something like how 2.1 behaved, but in 2.2, everything that I create is mine, not root, a welcome sight. > > - kscd doesn't work. When I set the correct setting for the cdrom device > /dev/acd0c (mode 755), the application crashes with signal 11. kscd got problems. I have opted to do away with kdemultimedia and get separate progs. A subscriber put me on to xmcd, I think its great. /usr/ports/audio/xmcd > > - DCOP fails during startup (startx command). Mostly corrected by giving a > second startx command. My setup doesn't have this behaviour also. > > Any suggestions to correct these (minor) problems would be appreciated. > > In general though KDE2.2 runs great, even though it did not get the loading > speed improvements that it got under Linux. > > > May I suggest to kill/move your .kde folder and have kde create another... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message