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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:44:42
Message-Id: 56ED81EC.9080302@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues. by Daniel Frey
1 Daniel Frey wrote:
2 > On 03/19/2016 07:56 AM, »Q« wrote:
3 >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:52:22 -0500
4 >> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
7 >>>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
8 >>>>
9 >>>>>>> The hard part, getting it to run as root. KDE doesn't like
10 >>>>>>> things running as root so it took a hammer and some elbow
11 >>>>>>> grease.
12 >>>>>> sudo konqueror works here.
13 >>>>> This works here as a desktop shortcut.
14 >>>>>
15 >>>>> kfmclient openProfile filemanagement
16 >>>> How does that run it as root?
17 >>> When I click it, it asks for the root password and after that, it runs
18 >>> as root just like the old KDE3 did. It's actually how it worked in
19 >>> KDE3 since I stole it from there.
20 >> That shouldn't work (and doesn't here) without some more "elbow grease
21 >> and hammers" somewhere.
22 >>
23 > Using `kfmclient openProfile filemanagement` doesn't work for me (I
24 > can't browse /root), and `sudo konqueror` doesn't work (can't connect to
25 > X server.)
26 >
27 > However, what did work was `kdesu konqueror`, which asked me for the
28 > root password. When I entered it, I can browse /root and create/edit files.
29 >
30 > All were done in a terminal as a non-root user.
31 >
32 > Dan
33 >
34 >
35 >
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38 It has worked here ever since I switched to KDE4. It worked just
39 yesterday and just for giggles, I just checked it again and it worked
40 like it always has. As long as it works, I'll keep using it.
41
42 Dale
43
44 :-) :-)