Open Dolphin as root

Dolphin Service Menus as_root dolpin folder root

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Now you can open the dolphin with root

Works with kde5 plasma

Attention: if you do not know what root is, then do not download this add-on !!

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1.1
Added Wayland Support;

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techxero

26 days ago

Sorry this

/usr/bin/servicemenuinstaller: error while loading shared libraries: libpackagekitqt5.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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techxero

26 days ago

I get this error Arch KDE

file:///home/techxero/.local/share/servicemenu-download/open_as_root.desktop

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intrr

1 month ago

2 This service has completely messed up my KDE neon installation, to the point of having to use Timeshift to revert. The first time I clicked "Open as root" in the service menu and entered my user password, nothing happened. The second time, it did work (opened a new Dolphin window as root). The third time, my plasma session crashed and most KDE settings were destroyed. Not good! (yes, I know what "root" means, I pretty much AM root in my whole LIFE :D so I didn't do anything that has to do with having "too much root". The destruction ensued merely after simply using "Open as root" three times, without doing anything else.)

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loup

27 days ago

I have it installed for more than a year in kde neon plasma and it works stably, the root is dangerous if you use it by default, be careful

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BJIacTeJIuH

5 months ago

This does not work in Plasma 5.18.5 ,desktop distribution Russian Fedora 32 Thirty Two ,dolphins ver 16.12 . When running the downloaded desktop open_as_root.desktop, the error occurs :"unknown Service entry in the desktop file" :-( . Author did You check exactly before publishing that it works ???

Это не работает в Plasma 5.18.5 ,desktop дистрибутив Russian Fedora 32 Thirty Two ,dolphin ver 16.12 . При запуске загруженного desktop open_as_root.desktop вылетает ошибка :"Неизвестная запись Service в файле desktop" :-( . Автор Вы точно проверели перед публикацией что это работает ???

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zloylinuxoid

5 months ago

Good job, thank you. 10 the best.

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zloylinuxoid

5 months ago

10 10 the best

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adderall6

5 months ago

It would be fantastic if somebody actually explained how the fuck to install the damn thing.

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BJIacTeJIuH

5 months ago

Yes,everything is quite simple :make the dsecktop executable file by opening properties --->rights-->set check-box is executable, copy it to /usr/share/applications/ (for all users) or to /home/%user name%/.local/share/applications/(only for your account ((login)) (where your Unix OS's dsecktop files are owned and stored. After that, the app will appear in the app launch menu.

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Groni1

6 months ago

9 9 excellent. Why? Long missing but now it works, great work my friend. I think you become a lot of Happy Users

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Groni1

6 months ago

Works fine with KDE Neon with Plasma Version 5.19.4 and with Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.18.5

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nosopolis

7 months ago

its ain't working on Plasma 5.18.5

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loup

7 months ago

I tested on Debian KDE with 5.14 and the addon works, also it worked with 5.17.5 and latest 5.19.4

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shamanincap

8 months ago

Hello. After opening Dolphin as root - it works of course - but it seems my entire session switches user to root. Every hotkey combination is starting apps as root - Dolphin and Konsole, as ones. Only reboot, or session end reset this

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obsidianpranay

5 months ago

same happening with me. Did you find any solution for it?

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shamanincap

5 months ago

Installed GNOME

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obsidianpranay

5 months ago

That's Great. Even Nautilus has great features but does it have the Services like Actions in Dolphin?

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shamanincap

5 months ago

Ubuntu has nautilus-admin package in official repos

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loup

7 months ago

the code of add-on is open and you can see that it opens rooted dolphin in a window and no more

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donbcilly

9 months ago

About the "this is dangerous" comments.
Yes, it is. But Dolphin itself warns you with "Running Dolphin as root can be dangerous. Please be careful."
Of course it should be used "sparingly". I use Dolphin (or Krusader) as root maybe once every three months :·)
Basically, if I have to copy/move *a lot* of files to protected places.

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BJIacTeJIuH

5 months ago

The Ministry of health no longer warns :-) it just closed the ability to run dolphin with root rights starting from version 17 (as well as the ability to run Kaku and kwrite):-(. PS on Mandrive Lx3 Zver everything still works only issues a terrible warning and colors the screen red when you log In as root in the OS.
Минздрав уже не предупреждает :-) он просто закрыл возможность выполнения dolphin c правами root начиная с версии 17 (так-же как и возможность выполнения каte и kwrite) :-( .
PS На Madrive Lx 3 Zver все по прежнему работает, хотя версия 19, лишь выдаёт грозное предупреждение и окрашивает экран красным цветом при входе под логином root в ос.

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donbcilly

9 months ago

8 8 great

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valeri0

9 months ago

10 10 the best

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ben2talk

9 months ago

4 4 soso

Though this is sadly missing with KDE (the ability, for example, to open up your /usr/share/backgrounds folder and take out one or two naff wallpapers, making dolphin do things you otherwise must do in terminal...

This just didn't work for me. I browsed to /usr/share and selected 'open as root', entered password and ...... NOTHING happened.

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zloylinuxoid

5 months ago

"This just didn't work for me. I browsed to /usr/share and selected 'open as root', entered password and ...... NOTHING happened"

Maybe, kdesu is installed on your system, but it doesn't work. To make it work, you need to create a simlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu
After which it start working normally. Try it. In my KDE Neon it helped.

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product-maker intrr Jan 16 2021 2 really bad
This service has completely messed up my KDE neon installation, to the point of having to use Timeshift to revert. The first time I clicked "Open as root" in the service menu and entered my user password, nothing happened. The second time, it did work (opened a new Dolphin window as root). The third time, my plasma session crashed and most KDE settings were destroyed. Not good! (yes, I know what "root" means, I pretty much AM root in my whole LIFE :D so I didn't do anything that has to do with having "too much root". The destruction ensued merely after simply using "Open as root" three times, without doing anything else.)
product-maker Groni1 Sep 01 2020 9 excellent
9 excellent. Why? Long missing but now it works, great work my friend. I think you become a lot of Happy Users
product-maker donbcilly Jun 01 2020 8 great
8 great
product-maker valeri0 May 27 2020 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker ben2talk May 26 2020 4 soso
4 soso Though this is sadly missing with KDE (the ability, for example, to open up your /usr/share/backgrounds folder and take out one or two naff wallpapers, making dolphin do things you otherwise must do in terminal... This just didn't work for me. I browsed to /usr/share and selected 'open as root', entered password and ...... NOTHING happened.
product-maker elcobrowser May 26 2020 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker evgom May 21 2020 10 the best
10 the best
product-maker baltolkien May 20 2020 1 ugh
I think this is dangerous. You must alert!
product-maker apol May 18 2020 1 ugh
It's a security hole and makes users interact with their system in harmful patterns.

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