On 2004-05-15 17:42:52 +0100 Graham Trott gt@pobox.com wrote:
- In the standard installation it appears to be impossible to get
into KDE as root. The login page simply refuses to do it. This seems excessively paranoid to me.
I assume that Debian just does whatever KDE recommend, but if it bothers you, then it may be worth "reportbug kdm" (or whatever package is offering the KDE login that you see).
- I have yet to see the equivalent of YAST for overall system
configuration. Maybe the bits of it are squirrelled away in the new KDE, which I haven't fully explored. Is there a separate GUI-based system configurator?
I think the nearest equivalent to YAST is debconf, but I usually still run that from the command line with "dpkg-reconfigure locales" or similar.
Finally, as I type this I've been installing OpenOffice, but it's just crapped out, warning "setting locale failed" and asking me to check my locale settings. How do I do that?
Have you checked in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian to see if this is a common problem? There are a couple of long-standing locale bugs listed on http://bugs.debian.org/openoffice.org too.