Open as Administrator in KDE Plasma's Dolphin File Manager in Linux
This video explains the use of the KIO Admin (kio-admin) package to provide « Open as Administrator » functionality in the Dolphin File manager in KDE Plasma.
Previously I posted a video pertaining to the « Open as Root » plugin for Dolphin. An issue with display scaling when using Open as Root recently popped up in KDE Neon after an update of KDE Plasma to 5.27.1. Specifically, editing a file in a directory opened as root caused my display scaling to revert to 100%. KIO Admin is an alternative to Open as Root that can be used to access and edit root directories and files without the display scaling issue.
Currently kio-admin works well in my KDE Neon system. Thus, I presume it works in other Ubuntu based systems.
I tried kio-admin in Arch for about a day, but sometimes it is prompting me for a password to open files that should not need a password to access. So, in Arch, I have reverted back to the « Open Dolphin as Root » plugin. To prevent the scaling issue from popping up in Arch (it has not yet), I logged into the system as root and changed the Global scale to be the same as the user setting. Hypothetically this will avoid any issues.
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