launching kwrite freezes bash

freekill · #1 6th December 2009, 12:02 AM

Hi. I was trying to disable selinux via kwrite in the command line but

Code:

su
kwrite /etc/sysconfig/selinux

does not launch kwrite for me. How could I do this? TIA

**rdieter** · #2 9th December 2009, 01:49 AM

su'ing gui apps in general (esp kde ones) is often problematic, try

kdesu kwrite ...

instead.

David Batson · #3 9th December 2009, 02:14 AM

kdesu no longer works out of the box with kwrite, konqueror, dolphin, etc in KDE4. su by itself doesn't work either. Use su - {that's su <space> <hypen>}.

**rdieter** · #4 9th December 2009, 02:52 AM

right, when using just 'su', permissions often get messed up, causing future problems. Check permissions of stuff under ~/.kde, in /tmp/kde-<username> and /var/tmp/kdecache-<username> for offenders