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did I goof? or did MX-KDE ghostbusters visit me??

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richb
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Re: did I goof? or did MX-KDE ghostbusters visit me??

#11 Post by richb »

My experience:

I have used terminal both ways, root terminal and su/sudo, for years in several distros both KDE and now MX-15 xfce without a problem. Perhaps I experienced the same as you, If I did I do not remember the result causing a system problem and still consider root terminal useful, (as a menu start), useful.
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Re: did I goof? or did MX-KDE ghostbusters visit me??

#12 Post by asqwerth »

I can't help with the issue itself, but I think for KDE, it's more useful to have root dolphin (or dolphin root actions enabled). That way you can manage files in the / partition conveniently.

The normal non-root terminal itself can always be made root by the su command. At least that's the case in standard MX14 and 15 (and I believe Debian in general unless a derivative has an installer that does not set up root password by default)
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