KDE file manager problem

[vinnywright]

You don't (didn't) really need to run a full desktop as root, you only need to run system settings (might have been kcontrol back then) as root with kdesudo to set the icon theme for root. I regularly set a different color scheme for root apps the same way, probably for the same reason you did...nice to have a visual reminder.

+1 ,,, I just make the folders red however ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

You don't (didn't) really need to run a full desktop as root, you only need to run system settings

I was a little less experienced back then...

That was 7-8 years ago! How time flies.

[vinnywright]

O ,,,,,, and by the way ,,,,, you can still launch Konqueror as root as well and is a bit closer to Dolphin than Krusader





VINNY

[Snowhog]

How did you make the change that has all the icons showing as red when you launch Konqueror (in this case) 'as root'?

[GreyGeek]

Right mouse on a directory icon, select properties, left click on the folder icon and choose another color!

[Snowhog]

I know how to do that, but in Vinny's screen shot, all icons; folders, file icons, active Menu bar icons; are all red. That's what I want to know 'how did he do it'.

[kubicle]

I know how to do that, but in Vinny's screen shot, all icons; folders, file icons, active Menu bar icons; are all red. That's what I want to know 'how did he do it'.

You can add icon effects (including colorization) in systemsettings>icons>advanced-tab

[vinnywright]

I know how to do that, but in Vinny's screen shot, all icons; folders, file icons, active Menu bar icons; are all red. That's what I want to know 'how did he do it'.

use "kdesudo systemsettings5" go to the icons and set a color.

VINNY

[Snowhog]

You can add icon effects (including colorization) in systemsettings>icons>advanced-tab

Installed konqueror and then launched systemsettings5 with kdesudo and changed the color to red in All Icons > Default > Set Effect... > Colorize > Color. Exited System Settings and launched kdesudo konqueror. No change to any of the icons.

[vinnywright]

Installed konqueror and then launched systemsettings5 with kdesudo and changed the color to red in All Icons > Default > Set Effect... > Colorize > Color. Exited System Settings and launched kdesudo konqueror. No change to any of the icons.

I did the "active" as well

VINNY

[kubicle]

Installed konqueror and then launched systemsettings5 with kdesudo and changed the color to red in All Icons > Default > Set Effect... > Colorize > Color. Exited System Settings and launched kdesudo konqueror. No change to any of the icons.

Did you fix the "icons not showing" issue first (by setting the correct KDE env keeps in sudoers, for example).

[Snowhog]

I'll set the color on Active and see what happens.

Interestingly, when I launch konqueror 'normally', it presents 'as expected' except that the Places icons are not showing. When launched with kdesudo it's even worse. The image below shows koqueror (left) and kdesudo konqueror (right).

[Snowhog]

Did you fix the "icons not showing" issue first (by setting the correct KDE env keeps in sudoers, for example).

No, I haven't. If you don't mind, the steps to do so are?

[vinnywright]

Did you fix the "icons not showing" issue first (by setting the correct KDE env keeps in sudoers, for example).

OOPS I also set the theme to oxygen first ,,,,this may have corrected that issue.

VINNY

[kubicle]

No, I haven't. If you don't mind, the steps to do so are?

Oneliner:

echo 'Defaults env_keep += "KDE_SESSION_VERSION KDE_FULL_SESSION"' | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/30-my_kdesession_env

Will create a new file /etc/sudoers.d/30-my_kdesession_env and append the the key env variables for sudo to keep when switching to root.