» Packman repository for KDE3 on openSUSE 11.2

openSUSE 11.2 doesn't ship KDE3 anymore, because it is barely maintained upstream. But you may still install and use KDE3 as your desktop environment as the packages are available in the openSUSE Build Service. Which is why we decided to set up an additional repository that contains the Packman packages that require KDE3. If you want e.g. kde3-amarok, add the following repository: http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/kde3/11.2/packman-kde3.repo

» Window switching bug in latest KDE

After upgrading to the latest (3.5.7) KDE in KDE:KDE3, I noticed there's a bug with window switching ([alt-tab]) with multiple screens: it only applies to windows that are on the same screen. Here is the fix, just copy/paste those two commands with your regular user (not root) in a shell:

kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows \    --key SeparateScreenFocus --type bool false dcop kwin default reconfigure

» kdesu with sudo

With KDE 3.5.5, kdesu now supports using sudo instead of su Here is how to enable it:

mkdir -p ~/.kde/share/config cat<<EOF > ~/.kde/share/config/kdesurc [super-user-command] super-user-command=sudo EOF

And here is the corresponding item in KDE's bugzilla, with further details: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20914 UPDATE: or, as Ben Kevan puts it, using kwriteconfig:

kwriteconfig -–file kdesurc -–group super-user-command -–key super-user-command sudo