Re: Fwd: Running kwrite with root privelige

[Don Juan <donjuansjiz@gmail.com>]

On 12/27/2011 07:49 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Bump this - Has anyone any suggestions, please?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Running kwrite with root privelige
> Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:21:08 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:46:29 +0000
> From: Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Having done a bare-metal squeeze (KDE) reinstall after a major disk
> screw-up, things are just about working as they used to. One weird
> thing, however, which I fine seriously annoying:
>
> I can call sudo dolphin, which works as expected, and gives me root
> privs. From this point, I used to be able to double-click on a text file
> to open it with root privs. I can no longer do so; the error message
> being "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite'."
Couldn't you just use dolphin as root then just double click the file 
you want to open and if Kwrite is the default text editor should open 
just fine. Just worked for me but also sudo kwrite <file> works from 
command line for me as well.

> I can call "sudo kwrite <file>"; thus have a work-round, but does anyone
> know how to allow me to invoke it from dolphin?
>
> Cheers, Tony
You could also use kdesu as well, I recently switched to using that 
overs sudo for those things.

man kdesu

Sorry if I miss understood what you were asking. Hope this helps some.