KonquerorSU ??

[Jim]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2008 17:14:43 Linuxguy123 wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 19:10 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Friday 28 November 2008 15:36:35 Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:36 -0500, Jim wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> FC10/KDE
>>>>>
>>>>> Why won't Konqueror run as SU ?
>>>>> I have it working  from a Icon on a laptop desktop, and to run as
>>>>> root, and it works fine.
>>>>> But on a PC , if I run it from console on a PC as SU it won't run.
>>>>> What gives ??
>>>>>           
>>>> kwrite and dolphin have the same problem.   I just reported it in
>>>> bugzilla.  Maybe you could add your experience with konqueror.
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473465
>>>>         
>>> Both konq and dolphin will run with 'su -'
>>>       
>> Neither konqueror nor dolphin will run from Konsole when I am su.
>>
>> I wish they would... I've been working around this issue for 2 days now.
>>     
>
> I did manage to get them to run from a desktop icon, but for some reason the 
> changes were not saved, and I can't get them running again.  It looks as 
> though I'm back to launching them from a root konsole, which works without a 
> problem.
>
> Anne
>   
Your icon on Desktop, right click and goto Properties , than Application 
tab, and down on bottom right of window, you see "Advavced Options" go 
in there and check box for "run as different User" Username: root