Konqueror in SU mode

Claude Jones cjones at levitjames.com
Wed Aug 27 01:08:37 UTC 2008


On Tue August 26 2008 3:50:52 pm Jim wrote:
> FC9, Kde-4.1
> How do I run Konqueror as Super User.
> It is very different to run konquerorSU in KDE-4.1 than KDE 3.5.
> If I open SU in Console and then try to run /usr/bin/konqueror, it won't
> run.

This has been a on/off solution for me, currently on. I right-click the 
konqueror icon in the menu and select 'add to panel' (since you're asking 
about konqueror, I'm assuming you're running KDE); once the icon appears in 
the panel, right click on it and select 'Icon settings'; go to the 
'Application' tab; click on 'Advanced options' and there you can tell it to 
run as a different user where you can type in 'root'. Close the advanced 
options window and in the 'Command' field, you can change 'webbrowsing' to 
'filemanagement' and then, close the settings window and try it. 

What I've found is that it's hit and miss; sometimes this works, and sometimes 
not; sometimes it works for awhile, and then stops working; it also sometimes 
requires a logout/login to get it working again. Lately, it's been working 
stably for me on this particular machine - I've seen the same behavior on 
several machines doing this, and I haven't been able to pin down the reason. I 
have another machine at my office where this is simply not working, even though 
I'm doing exactly the same thing to set it up, so, good luck. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Leesburg, VA




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