running programs as root in KDE: Solved

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 11:39 +0530, Digvijay Patankar wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Gerhard Magnus
> <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>         Something that used to be
>         simple -- i.e. open Konsole, then as superuser,
>         kwrite /etc/hosts & --
>         doesn't work and instead delivers error messages that make no
>         sense to
>         me, let alone give me anything to work with.
> 
> Have you tried 
> <alt> + F2 > kdesu kwrite <path/to/file> ?
> I think this will work for you. 

Thanks for all the help -- this was most like what this former gnome
user has been doing before. (kdesu kwrite <path/to/file> also works from
the terminal command line.)