Sorry - Plasma: sudo and kdesu

[hallergard]

Have made some icons for the panel using sudo and kdesu. Using "sudo konsole" I get an error message: Sorry - Plasma KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/sudo' and using "kdesu kate" I get: Sorry - Plasma KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu' Have to press OK to continue. Any way of getting rid of this message?

[vinnywright]

you should be using "kdesudo" to launch any GUI app.

using sudo to open a GUI app can mess up permissions in your home .

VINNY

[hallergard]

Thanks that solved the problem with konsole but not with kate (getting the message upon exit)

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[vinnywright]

Thanks that solved the problem with konsole but not with kate (getting the message upon exit)

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ya ,,,,I hvent found a fix for that one yet ,,,,,,,,I find it a minor annoyance as kate works fine and as you say ,,,,,the error happens after using it ,,,,strange.

VINNY

[vinnywright]

FYI you can also change to a root konsole after your already using konsole with a "sudo su" or "sudo -i" not sure whitch one is best however .

VINNY

but see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[hallergard]

Thanks but will stay with "sudo kate" and OK upon exit

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[vinnywright]

Thanks but will stay with "sudo kate" and OK upon exit

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that is not a good idea ......files saved wile running kate this way will be owned by root not you .

if one of these files was a config in say .kde or .config and gets owned by root it will no longer work for your user (you)

you should run (in a regular konsole not a root one IE: kdesudo console)

find ~/ -user root

anything it spits out is owned by root and all files in ~/ (thats /home/you) should be owned by you.

VINNY

[hallergard]

Maybe that's why I often run this in a root terminal: chown -R myself.myself /home
So "kdesudo kate" is better in this respect?

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[vinnywright]

Maybe that's why I often run this in a root terminal: chown -R myself.myself /home
So "kdesudo kate" is better in this respect?

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much ,,,,,,,,,,,yes

VINNY