How do I run this KDE Plasma widget (Optimus GPU Switcher) as root? Entering my password doesn't work.

jlow, 3 months ago

Would be interested as well, for me this happens with KSystemLog.

boredsquirrel, 1 month ago

Run it with pkexec instead

Pantherina, 3 months ago

Dafuk is that tool. Normally you want to use polkit > sudo > su. You dont need a root account and VanillaOS doesnt even need sudo anymore.

This seems like extremely outdated software.

DripGeronimo, 3 months ago

It’s a Plasma widget that uses EnvyControl to switch between GPUs on systems that have both an nvidia and AMD GPU. It works fine using the command line, but this widget runs into this issue

github.com/enielrodriguez/optimus-gpu-switcher

Pantherina, 3 months ago

You might want to fork it, replace kdesu with pkexec and see how that goes.

boredsquirrel, 1 month ago

And, how did it go? I see they already use pkexec

Ghostie21, 3 months ago

Are you using your users password or the root accounts password? This wants the root accounts password. What groups are you apart of?

DripGeronimo, 3 months ago

I haven’t set up a root user on this installation; I’m in the wheel group

Ghostie21, 3 months ago

Considering the software specifically asked for root I think you’ll either need to make a root account or find newer software.

Novi, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You need to get into PAM then and change the configuration. This is asking to become root NOT escalate privileges via sudo or similar so being in wheel does not matter.

Actually 2 seconds of looking at the GitHub page will show you how to configure your application to not ask for root.