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This is very easy in KDE but Desktop entries work the same on all Desktops.
See this post where I mentioned how to do this with running Konsole with root.
In general, use polkit instead of sudo, every desktop has a GUI dialog that pops up.
And add this as a desktop action, following the guide.
In the specific case of Konsole you could use a profile instead.
Be aware that nearly no program should be ran as root. Also not Konsole. The program is ran as the user, and can enter a root shell, but never run random apps as root. Not even many terminal apps are made to be ran as root, for example use
sudoedit
instead ofsudo nano
for editing files.To view and change system files in KDE, type
admin:/
into the location bar.Running apps as root doesnt work with Wayland, and for a good reason.
Thanks for this, but I have a question:
Are you sure about this? I run GUI apps as root all the time and have Wayland.
Not sure if all apps, maybe some work, maybe they use XWayland. Dont do this.