Anno domini 2024 Thu, 22 Feb 17:38:27 +0100 ajh-valmer via tde-users scripsit: Don't! You'll get ugly sideeffects when you do so. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

On Thursday 22 February 2024 10:12:01 ajh-valmer via tde-users wrote: wrote: Yes, I believe that we had this discussion before. If you launch any application as root, the best thing is to get in and get out quickly. If you want to find out whether anything bad will happen by running Konqueror as root, then we will save you the time and trouble, and say, yes, sooner or later, bad things happen. Nik is right: If possible, avoid running any application as root. Also, however, I will admit that I do the same. (Probably most of us, including Nik, do the same, now and then.) I sometimes run Konqueror as root, for a few minutes, in order to do something that would take much more time and trouble to accomplish by command-line. It occurs to me to ask how you try to start Konqueror as root. There is an entry in the start menu to run Konqueror as root. (Also there are clickable icons for other applications to be run as root.) Another way to do the same thing is alt-F2, then run the command tdesu konqueror. The tdesu command works for other applications, too, if you need to run them as root. Bill