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In some previous release of some previous distribution somewhere along my Linux exploration journey, I had a little menu item (in KDE, I believe) that would open a terminal as superuser(root) after you entered the password.
I cannot figure out how to create this shortcut, even though I imagine it is pretty simple. Any ideas?
In KDE, when you right-click on an empty space on the kicker, select Add/Special Button/Terminal Sessions.
This will add "Terminal Sessions" on your menu and from there you can select Root Console.
yeah, it's also probably better if you just type "su", then if someone who doesn't really know what they're doing, and click that button, they won't be just messing with trying to guess your password,
The primary reason I want to do this is for the theme of the terminal. How I had it set up way back when was with a different theme for the root terminal, and for the user terminal. If you open the user terminal and SU then the theme stays the same. I like to leave my terminal windows open and it makes it easy to spot the root terminal right away and remember that it is a root terminal.
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yeah, it's also probably better if you just type "su", then if someone who doesn't really know what they're doing, and click that button, they won't be just messing with trying to guess your password,
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