Cager wrote:Hi Kryten2X4B . I tried the service menu you suggested but still no coconut! When I right click on a file I get the root action menu but if I select say, "Ownership to active user" I am not prompted for the root password and I still can't edit files owned by root.

I'm afraid I really have no idea what's causing this. I get the normal "This action needs root privileges" dialogue, including the password line-edit line. Once I provide the necessary password, the ownership flags are changed. This is using a rather standard OpenSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 install of KDE 4.1.3 (and no difference when using 4.1.73, i.e. a preview of what will become KDE 4.2). 32-bit in the case of OpenSUSE 11.0, and 64-bit in the case of 11.1.

I can confirm the Dolphin bug under KDE 4.2 latest trunk ( revision 888223 ). The appropriate bug is here

bcooksley wrote:I can confirm the Dolphin bug under KDE 4.2 latest trunk ( revision 888223 ). The appropriate bug is here

Thanks for that, I thought it was just me having problems. It is nice to know I am not alone!

Hello all.... Seems like what the original poster wanted was a "login as superuser" function in either dolphin or konqueror. The contributers to this thread have offered a "workaround" for the issue, but I wanted to bring the discussion back to the original intent of the question.

Wonder why the developers don't have a menu sub-item function or selection (maybe under "file" or "settings" for "login as superuser)...? How hard could this be to implement, really? Should have been done by 4.1.0

There is a nice service menu entry on kubuntu, it can be found under actions:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,text/*,application/x-desktop
Actions=Editassu

[Desktop Action Editassu]
Name=Edit as Root
Name[it]=Edita come Root
Name[fr]=Editer en tant que Root
Name[es]=Editar como Root
Name[de]=Als root bearbeiten
Icon=kfm
Exec=kdesu "kwrite" "%U"


With that you can edit every text file as super user.
The file should be saved under $HOME/.kde(4)/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus

Just for your information, trunk does have two super user icons. One for Konsole, another for Dolphin. disturbingly, the Dolphin one works beautifully. The command executed by dolphinsu.desktop is

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dolphin %i -caption "%c" "%u"

This when executed gives the following command in KDE Su:

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/home/trunk/kde/bin/dolphin -icon system-file-manager -caption 'File Manager - Super User Mode' "

Try kdesu dbus-launch dolphin

falcon56215 wrote:Try kdesu dbus-launch dolphin

Thanks falcon56215 - works great.

I don't know if I have understood that thread because my english is not very good....
But I think that you couldn't run graphical apps as root, isn't it??
If that's the problem the only thing you hace to do is run

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xhots +

in a terminal (being user)...