Changing to root in konqi

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/28/06, Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 28.05.2006 19:05:
> > If I'm browsing the filesystem in Konqi, how can I change myself to
> > the superuser? Or must I "sudo konqueror" from the command line in
> > order to browse the system as root?.
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> AFAIK the later is the only way.
>
> > I know the danger, but sometimes I want to do that, for instance to
> > edit fstab, or to explore the linux filesystem. Thanks.
>
> personaly i prefer:
> rxvt-unicode -geometry 122x48 +sb -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono:pixelsize=13" -title root -n root -e sudo mc
>
> for that. The advantage here is that only the mc instance runs with
> root-privileges, not the whole window. And after a while you will notice
> you move much faster across the filesystem (ALT+c) with mc.
>
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> bye Thilo

I'm not sure what the command is supposed to do, but I get this:
bash: rxvt-unicode: command not found

Dotan Cohen
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