* Ben T. Fender [12-21-21 07:22]:

I don't know if this is a plasma or a suse issue...

When user launches dolphin-su a little alert appears, which is a useful flag but I used to have an even better one that could not be just clicked OFF and forgotten. I used to set, as root, a background color of reddish orange so that when any user called dolphin-su that window would be in root's colours. UNFORTUNATELY this feature is now dead, dolphin-su shows up indistinguishably dressed in user colors :-(

probably an application problem where did you get "dolphin-su"? what system are you running? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

* Ben T. Fender [12-21-21 09:57]:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:39:11 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Ben T. Fender [12-21-21 07:22]:

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I don't know if this is a plasma or a suse issue...

When user launches dolphin-su a little alert appears, which is a useful flag but I used to have an even better one that could not be just clicked OFF and forgotten. I used to set, as root, a background color of reddish orange so that when any user called dolphin-su that window would be in root's colours. UNFORTUNATELY this feature is now dead, dolphin-su shows up indistinguishably dressed in user colors :-(

probably an application problem

where did you get "dolphin-su"? what system are you running?

I just noticed this 'File-Mangler Super User' novelty on Suse-Leap-15.3 yesterday

has been that way on plasma5 for as long as I can remember.

but now that I look into it in unsuspected places it seems to hail from elsewhere.

where is that "elsewhere"?

If I log into plasma as root just to TS

"TS" is ??

and launch Dolphin, GONE are the kde (bright red) colors that I had previously set up just for this purpose.

I don't understand and you have not explained "that I had previously set up". my understanding is it is plasma5 default presentation.

I haven't yet checked my other systems also offering kde (Artix, Devuan, Slack).

nor have I.

openSUSE Leap 15.3, Kernel=5.3.18-59.37-preempt on x86_64, DM=sddm, DE=KDE, ST=x11,grub2, GPT, BIOS-boot

I run Tumbleweeds

Dolphin as SU now shows an SU alert of it's own but that can be clicked OFF (and forgotten). My method (proofed over 20 years) was explicit and indelible. In fact I even made a root-fm panel icon for this purpose, kfm-su, attached :-)

but "My method" is not offered or explained and unknown to me. perhaps someone else reading may know it, but ...

ciao

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-- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

-- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

* Ben T. Fender [12-21-21 12:01]:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:33:39 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Ben T. Fender [12-21-21 09:57]:

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On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:39:11 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Ben T. Fender [12-21-21 07:22]:

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I don't know if this is a plasma or a suse issue...

When user launches dolphin-su a little alert appears, which is a useful flag but I used to have an even better one that could not be just clicked OFF and forgotten. I used to set, as root, a background color of reddish orange so that when any user called dolphin-su that window would be in root's colours. UNFORTUNATELY this feature is now dead, dolphin-su shows up indistinguishably dressed in user colors :-(

probably an application problem

where did you get "dolphin-su"? what system are you running?

I just noticed this 'File-Mangler Super User' novelty on Suse-Leap-15.3 yesterday

has been that way on plasma5 for as long as I can remember.

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but now that I look into it in unsuspected places it seems to hail from elsewhere.

where is that "elsewhere"?

NOT in Plasma constraints of any sort as I had initially thought probable

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If I log into plasma as root just to TS

"TS" is ??

Trouble shooting

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and launch Dolphin, GONE are the kde (bright red) colors that I had previously set up just for this purpose.

I don't understand and you have not explained "that I had previously set up" ... but "My method" is not offered or explained and unknown to me. perhaps someone else reading may know it, but ...

from the top

20 or more years ago I decided that even as a mortal user the 'File Manager Super-User Mode' launched by me would produce a Konqueror or later Dolphin window in revoltingly red colors to serve as an alert that I was using a root-empowered utility. Concurrently I changed the classic yellow kde filemanager ikon in the panel to a red one instead and with the then already also classic cannonball pasted to it.

All this time I kept just injecting the old /root color schemes files, in fact the entire migrating /root folder into every new installation using kde or lately Plasma. The red cabinets just kept showing up as intended, until recently.

That's about all I can say at this point without risking misleading anyone. I still have the red cabinets in my 'user' panel but I also want the red filemanager widows back but only when calling 'File-Manager Super-User Mode'.

make or use the red icon you prefer so edit the application, "KDE Menu Editor" selece "File Manager - Super User Mode" change it icon to your red icon and forget the hoops you previously jumped thru. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

On 21/12/2021 19:31, Ben T. Fender wrote:

that's how I've been getting a red 'icon' all this time

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and forget the hoops you previously jumped thru.

those hoops are what bring me the red dolphin 'window' for an su-FM

Open Dolphin in Super User Mode. Click in the address bar so it turns to editable mode instead of breadcrumb mode. Click the little cross thing at the far right to erase the contents of the address bar. Now on the far left of the bar you'll get a 'file' dropdown. From there, select 'Settings' in the list and press Enter. Now you can go into Appearance and Colours (mine has two 'Colours' icons of which only one leads to the actual settings - a bug), make your changes and these should be preserved for all root windows accessed from your user space. Make any other changes you want from the other Settings options. gumb

BTW that File Manager in su mode feature is one of the best things Suse ever did! The net is lousy with other distros' users asking for it :-) On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:50:54 +0100 gumb wrote:

On 21/12/2021 19:31, Ben T. Fender wrote:

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that's how I've been getting a red 'icon' all this time

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and forget the hoops you previously jumped thru.

those hoops are what bring me the red dolphin 'window' for an su-FM

Open Dolphin in Super User Mode. Click in the address bar so it turns to editable mode instead of breadcrumb mode. Click the little cross thing at the far right to erase the contents of the address bar. Now on the far left of the bar you'll get a 'file' dropdown. From there, select 'Settings' in the list and press Enter. Now you can go into Appearance and Colours (mine has two 'Colours' icons of which only one leads to the actual settings - a bug), make your changes and these should be preserved for all root windows accessed from your user space. Make any other changes you want from the other Settings options.

gumb