On Wednesday 29 May 2024 06:30:05 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2024 09:12:38 +0200 > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anno domini 2024 Wed, 29 May 08:30:20 +0200 > > > > Thierry de Coulon via tde-users scripsit: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I always find this sort of declaration a little exagerated, and funnily > > > no one ever seems to answer: "why?" > > > > Easiest scenario: Some programs use $USER to find their config file > > location. You run that program as root. Now you have a problem that you > > don't know about. > > I've never had an issue of that sort even once in ~20 years with KDE3 and > TDE, and I invoke enough GUI programs through su sessions that if it were > going to happen I would have expected to see it by now. Root's > configuration always saves under /root as intended, without polluting my > regular user, and the software has no trouble figuring out which config to > use. And yet other people on this list do seem to have such issues, which > leads me to believe it relates to something in the setup of > Debian-descended distros. Or it's specific to one or two pieces of TDE > that I don't use. > > E. Liddell Yes. I've never seen that problem on openSUSE, and since I started using it (at version 6, IIRC), there has never been a restriction about using root in a GUI or a non-root terminal session, or invoking e.g. YaST2 GUI from a non-root session. KDE (and TDE too) have the feature built into the menu editor to designate that an application should be run by a different user; if Run as a different user is checked and no Username is filled in, root is assumed. (See attached.) Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0
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