Re: Buster: Has anyone been able to run an app as root in KDE?

[local10 <local10@tutanota.com>]

Oct 2, 2018, 11:12 AM by yaros42@posteo.net:

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> kwriteconfig5 --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command su
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> That makes su default super user command instead sudo. (source: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#kdesu <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#kdesu>> )
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Now when I try to run Kwrite  as root (just for test purposes) it no longer  hangs but immediately fails with the following error message:

   KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu'

Thanks