Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 03/19/2016 07:56 AM, »Q« wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:52:22 -0500
>> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>>>> The hard part, getting it to run as root.  KDE doesn't like
>>>>>>> things running as root so it took a hammer and some elbow
>>>>>>> grease.     
>>>>>> sudo konqueror works here.  
>>>>> This works here as a desktop shortcut.
>>>>>
>>>>> kfmclient openProfile filemanagement   
>>>> How does that run it as root?  
>>> When I click it, it asks for the root password and after that, it runs
>>> as root just like the old KDE3 did.  It's actually how it worked in
>>> KDE3 since I stole it from there. 
>> That shouldn't work (and doesn't here) without some more "elbow grease
>> and hammers" somewhere.
>>
> Using `kfmclient openProfile filemanagement` doesn't work for me (I
> can't browse /root), and `sudo konqueror` doesn't work (can't connect to
> X server.)
>
> However, what did work was `kdesu konqueror`, which asked me for the
> root password. When I entered it, I can browse /root and create/edit files.
>
> All were done in a terminal as a non-root user.
>
> Dan
>
>
>


It has worked here ever since I switched to KDE4.  It worked just
yesterday and just for giggles, I just checked it again and it worked
like it always has.  As long as it works, I'll keep using it. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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