I enabled Open As Root, but when I open a folder as root, the new view has a much larger font. I am assuming that it is using the root display setting as opposed to the user setting.
My User2 Display settings is set to 150%. How can have Dolphin use that, or at least fix the root user display setting to 150%
This is not supported.
Install/Use kio-admin.
I’m assuming you meant the Open Dolphin as root [KDE5/KDE6] service menu from the user-contributed “KDE Store” / a Get Hot New Stuff service?
Generally when discussing stuff you got from GHNS/KDE Store - its best to mention that, possibly providing a link, as these user-contributed extensions are not commonly used and other users on this forum may be surprised by what you found there.
That tool uses the pkexec command to run Dolphin as if you’ve just logged in as the user root - so Dolphin can only look at the the user settings for the root user, it should never look at your personal user’s settings, it shouldn’t even know about them as that breaks all kind of security assumptions
This method is not good, and - as @meven mentioned - is not supported and KDE offers a better built-in way for a user to do “administrator level” file system operations, using the kio-admin plugin. It should be installed by your operating system, but if not - you should be able to install the tool from Discover:
After which, you should have a new item in your Dolphin’s Places folder, labeled as “Root”:
When you click it, you should get a popup asking for your password, and if you type it (and your user account is allowed to do administration tasks) you will get a “Root Dolphin” that is clearly labeled as such:
You can click the “Finish” button to “log out” from administrator mode.
unless you are using plasma 6 on kubuntu 24.10 and kio-admin only works with plasma 5.
@skyfishgoo - all the screenshots above are on Plasma 6.2, though on KDE Neon and not in Kubuntu - so it sounds like a packaging problem on Kubuntu. I see the OP is on Kubuntu, so that may be an issue for them…
According to packages.ubuntu.com, the current kio-admin package for 24.10 oracular is 23.08.5, built against libkf5kiocore5 version 5.98. This is a very old version of KIO, released more than 2 years ago. Even 24.04 noble shouldn’t be on that old of a version - and it isn’t: its on 5.115.
The latest version of kio-admin on the Ubuntu repositories was build on April 8th, 2024 - I’m guessing for the 24.04 noble release - which was obviously for Plasma 5.27 that noble was released with, though at this point it should have been built with a more modern KF5 version. It was then made available, with no additional changes, to oracular. IMHO this is a failure of multiple processes. Kubuntu had lost a lot of talent in the last few years, and it unfortunately shows.
where did the talent go?
maybe i should follow.
To Neon, apparently 
oh, no thanks.
i see too many ppl on here with neon specific issues.
Hi I am using
Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-48-generic (64-bit)
Thank you for the details. I have kio-admin installed and I can type admin:/// in the folder bar, prompts for my password. I can navigate to any other user folder and make copies.
However, it will not allow me to change the permissions of a folder. through right click Properties See image. Any thoughts?
What happens when you try to modify permissions? Do you get an error?
The permissions can be set, I didn’t see any error. But I misspoke before. It will not allow me to change ownership/group from the Properties.
So for example when I copy a folder with kio-admin from user1 to user2 it comes over as owned/group by root. I cant use it unless I change the ownership and group names. I have to do it using chown
I think the issue is that the ownership UI is locked for all remote protocols. There’s a bug report about this for kio-admin (probably - it is filed on the wrong product and the description is quite confusing), but I think the problem is more general and applies to all “remote” KIO protocols.
I’ve reviewed the kio-admin code and that appears to support changing ownership of files.
I submitted a bug report. I hope it makes sense
