[arch-general] setting the time

[Peter Nikolic]

On Sunday 08 January 2012 18:01:35 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2012 12:27 PM, "Tom Gundersen" <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Peter Lewis <plewis at aur.archlinux.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > >> This is done via policykit.
> > > 
> > > Would I need some optdepend installed or some daemon started to make
> 
> this
> 
> > > work? I notice that I have polkit-qt installed, but I don't think I've
> 
> ever
> 
> > > done anything explicit with regard to policykit. I'm in the wheel
> 
> group, in
> 
> > > case that matters.
> > 
> > No particular group membership necessary. I'm not really sure exactly
> > what packages need to be installed (I just install all the kde
> > packages and hope for the best).
> > 
> > This should "just work(TM)". If it does not there could be a
> > polkit/consolekit problem. If you use kdm (via the rc script)
> > everything should be set up correctly, so if you are starting KDE in
> > some other way that might be worth looking into.
> > 
> > > I'm running [testing] on this machine. Perhaps that could cause the
> > > difference?
> > 
> > I think this should work regardless, but for what it is worth I am
> > using kde-unstable + testing.
> > 
> > -t
> 
> On my system I do have the key.
> 
> Is peter said, if you are using kdm, then this should be handled for you.
> If not try the following in your .xinitrc:
> 
> exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startkde

I start KDM in "/etc/rc.conf"   as a daemon  after dbus 
 
> 
> As for my user groups:
> video,audio,optical,storage,games,lp,wheel,scanner,power
> 
> As for kde packages, I have a very minimal kde install and it still works.
> kdebase is must of course. Try it with just that and the above settings. If
> it doesn't work, then take a look at `pacman -Sg kdeadmin`

voyager:/ #pacman -Sg kdeadmin
kdeadmin kdeadmin-kcron
kdeadmin kdeadmin-ksystemlog
kdeadmin kdeadmin-kuser
kdeadmin kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde



Pete .