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aussiepete

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Registered: 2007-06-26

Posts: 2

Sorting Icons in KDE

I am a Windows refugee  thoroughly enjoying Arch.

There are a couple of things that I have not been able to resolve, even after searching the achives.

1. When I open Arch KDE Desktop, the Icons are never sorted as I left them.  I have ticked the appropriate boxes in Desktop Config and in the Control Panel to no avail.  Is there an equivalent to the Auto Arrange used in Windows that I am missing somehow?  I have to use the 'Sort Icons/By Type' in desktop config after each boot.

OK, I KNOW I am anal about this :))

2.xhost +localhost

After each boot, I have to enter the line above into my user terminal, This results in the following:-

[pete@archbox ~]$ xhost +localhost
localhost being added to access control list
[pete@archbox ~]$ exit

This allows me to edit as root using Kate or Kwrite.

I have looked through the archives and tried many of the suggestions. Where is the 'Access Control List' Can I set the command to load automatically? 

I suspect that these are pretty basic questions but we all have to learn sometime.

Regards

Pete

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: Sorting Icons in KDE

For your 2nd question/problem, check out sudo http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo

or you can try either in a terminal or "Run Command"

kdesu "program name"

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-06-26 03:58:11)

aussiepete

Member

Registered: 2007-06-26

Posts: 2

Re: Sorting Icons in KDE

For your 2nd question/problem, check out sudo http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo

or you can try either in a terminal or "Run Command"

kdesu "program name"

Hi

Thanks for the info.

I have used these commands and they bring up a mass of errors in the terminal.  I have tried the solutions in the archives to no effect.  A knowledgeable  friend thinks it MAY have something to do with the fact that I have an esmith server for my home network and do not use DHCP.
We have looked but found nothing to support this.

Pete

MoxJet

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 20

Re: Sorting Icons in KDE

That is indeed very weird that you cannot use sudo/kdesu. Can you give us an example of what the error messages are?

Can you use su to substitue user to root?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_%28Unix%29

hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Sorting Icons in KDE

for the first question... do you mean something like align icons to grid?

for the second question just place a script in ~/.kde/Autostart/  that runs whatever commands you want to start when you open up a new kde session