howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

Jona Joachim jaj at hcl-club.lu
Fri Feb 15 04:27:12 UTC 2008


On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:04:33 +0100, Danny Pansters wrote:

> On Thursday 14 February 2008 20:45:43 Piotr wrote:
>> if I try to start File Manager - Super User Mode, I put the root
>> password and then I'm getting a lot of the following errors:
>>
>> There was an error loading the module Navigation Panel. The diagnostics
>> is:
>> file not found
>>
>> There was an error loading the module Print Management Tool. The
>> diagnostics is:
>> file not found
>>
>> There was an error loading the module KSVGPlugin. The diagnostics is:
>> file not found
>>
>> There was an error loading the module Icon View. The diagnostics is:
>> file not found
>>
>> There was an error loading the module KHTML. The diagnostics is:
>> file not found
>>
>> etc.
> 
> Hmm, it's possible that if you startx (and kde) as root once this stuff
> will go away. I suggest you try that.

Please don't start X as root. Don't start kde or konqueror as root 
either, not even as a file manager. Use ls(1).
It's really not reasonable to start more processes than really needed as 
root. It's one of the most basic Unix credos and there are reasons for it.


-- 
:wq Jona



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