Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84 <at> verizon.net> writes:
> Why do they do that anyway? Don't kde people log out? Or do they pull
> their hair every time they startx trying to figure out which permissions
> to fix.
They use kdesu instead of su or sudo. Kdesu does the right thing for running
KDE-based or other X-based applications as root.
Kevin Kofler