Ubuntu 11.10 with KDE installed does not prompt for elevation for privileged ops in all apps
- by Michael Goldshteyn
I installed the KDE window manager on top of Ubuntu 11.10 and while I am using KDE, I do not get an elevation dialog when I try to perform tasks that require root privileges. Instead, the operations silently fail, unless I launch apps from a terminal, in which case I get errors like:
Traceback (most recent call last):
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