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The task: execuitng a desktop item as root without having to be prompted with the root password each time. The reason: a number of KDE applications for which I need root access are run fairly consistently by myself as a user. I do not want to have to switch sessions to the root user in order to run the applications from KDE. The solution at command line level: 1) Add an entry for the particular user in the /etc/sudoers file for running a particular command using the NOPASSWD: sudoers tag. The so...

I do not know whether or not kdesu is considered part of KDE but I thought I would asked my question here anyway. When visually setting up a desktop file to run an application, KDE offers the Advanced option to run as a different user and I am guessing this uses kdesu under the covers. If I have in my /etc/sudoers file the same application in a command, with the sudoers NOPASSWD: option set for that command, I would have expected kdesu to honor this and not prompt me for the root password when I...

This was finally solved for me by removing the kfmclient file association to Application/X-desktop file type under KDE. After that I was able to open desktop files from within a desktop folder without any problems. I d not know what program setup this file association on my machine but it evidently did not work. Thanks for your help.

Quoted Originally posted by bram85 In my situation I've associated Kate with *.desktop files, Konqueror (kfmclient) cannot do really much with that kind of files. I certainly did not associate kfmclient with *.desktop files, but some installation must have done that. What you appear to be saying is that I should remove the association. As far as associating Kate with *.desktop files, does that not mean that if you attempt to open the *.desktop file that Kate will be invoked ? That does not appe...

I am running KDE 3.5.5 on OpenSuse Linux 10.2. Whenever I try to open any link from within a Konqueror desktop folder I get the message: "There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konquereor with application/x-desktop, but it can not handle this file type." I am able to open that link when it is on the desktop itself and not within a desktop folder. In the KDE File Associations for Application X-desktop I see a handler of 'kfmclient' which executes a command of 'kfmclient op...