There are cases when it’s necessary to open the Dolphin file manager as root, to edit OS files my user account doesn’t normally have access to. I only do this when necessary and yes I’m aware of the dangers… never broke anything in a decade this way so it’s all good. On openSUSE there’s a default s…

[image] Manjaro KDE dolphin ROOT KDE Plasma sudo pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true dbus-launch dolphin The sudo looks superflous to me - it should work without it.

Running Dolphin as root

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freggel.doe 5 April 2021 22:12 3

The sudo looks superflous to me - it should work without it.

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