Dolphin in KDE 4.2.3

[Erratus]

With Konqueror in KDE 3.5 a user of group wheel could use konqueror for maintenance as root.

How to do this with Dolphin in KDE 4.2.3 ?

Running KDE with root login is no solution.

[phoenix]

From the Run command dialog (Alt+F2 by default, I always remap it to Win+R):
kdesudo dolphin

Or even just: kdesu dolphin

That will run just that instance of Dolphin with root privileges.

Search through the System and Admin sub-menus, there should be a shortcut created for Super-User Dolphin or something along those lines.

[Erratus]

Or even just: kdesu dolphin



yes, that prompts for password. :)

But when Dolphin is open I run into error message:

"Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files"

Hmmm, new problem.

[Erratus]

kdesu dbus-launch dolphin

now works for me.

[Erratus]

kdesu dbus-launch dolphin

now works for me.

... anymore. It creates a bunch of new problems at least on my system.

Having used dbus-launch only once to start dolphin after this, clicking on a folder icon starts dolphin every time with dbus-launch. Have no idea how to get rid of it.

If I enter the password it works, but if "ignore" is chosen a xmessage window pops up and says:

Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.

After click to confirm the xmessage kde4 runs into a fatal IO Error: client killed. (kdesud: Fatal IO error, exiting ...)
Konsole Sessionmanager destroyed with sessions still alive

Problem now is that I cannot open myhome folder (user) without getting prompted for the root password. I do not want this anymore.

I don't know how to start checks on xorg/kde installation.

[donxc]

to answer your original question
I had to :
FIRST locate kdesu, then ln -s path/to/kdesu /usr/local/bin/kdesu ( Don't like to add more paths in ~.profile)
then I can Alt F2 kdesu -c konqueror
hth

[donxc]

oops, sorry , you were asking for Dolphin and I misread it the first go around as you wanted Konqueror.