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Monday, April 4th 2005, 12:46pm

konqueror corrupt in root

hi, running kde 3.3.2. for some reason konqueror tries to open folders with kwrite "ONLY WHEN LOGGED IN AS ROOT". NORMAL LOGIN IS FINE. This just started 2 days ago and I notice that there is a lock icon on the root folder. Any ideas how to fix this, very annoying

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Monday, April 4th 2005, 1:27pm

RE: konqueror corrupt in root

You shouldn't use KDE apps (including konqueoror) as root if don't need to. You may want to try deleting ~root/.kde or moving it to a different location. This way kde will reset all the root's settings to default.

The "lock" is because normal users don't have access permissions to roots home directory. You must be browsing as a regular user and not as root if you see the lock.
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Monday, April 4th 2005, 2:23pm

RE: konqueror corrupt in root

Thank you very much. problem solved!!! I will stay out of kde as root but can i get root priv when necessary from my nomal log in?

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Monday, April 4th 2005, 2:40pm

RE: konqueror corrupt in root

use a terminal and issue the command "su" there. Some administration programs are also able to switch to root account if needed (of course you have to provide a password).
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