On Monday 31 August 2020 08:44:06 am E. Liddell wrote:
> I admit that I usually leave a Konsole window that's su'ed to root lying
> around permanently

For what it's worth, I also always have a root Konsole shell (tab) open at all 
times.  'New Root Shell' gives you (me) black text on white background 
instead of the user shell of white text on black background, so it's somewhat 
hard to type into the wrong shell...