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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 09:52:35
Message-Id: 56ED2156.2060407@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues. by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >>>> The hard part, getting it to run as root. KDE doesn't like things
5 >>>> running as root so it took a hammer and some elbow grease.
6 >>> sudo konqueror works here.
7 >> This works here as a desktop shortcut.
8 >>
9 >> kfmclient openProfile filemanagement
10 > How does that run it as root?
11
12 When I click it, it asks for the root password and after that, it runs
13 as root just like the old KDE3 did. It's actually how it worked in KDE3
14 since I stole it from there.
15
16
17 >
18 >> Never cared much for sudo either.
19 > If you want to run things as root, it's the obvious choice. Even more so
20 > if you want to run some things as root without a password prompt
21 > (although doing that with a file manager s not a wise move).
22 >
23 >
24
25 I've tried sudo and just don't like it. Same as I don't like Gnome
26 either. It just isn't something I cared for. Besides, I don't mind
27 typing in the root password.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)

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