On Thursday 31 December 2015 13.44:14 kanenas@... wrote:
> have you tried adding a sudo password and using it, at least as a
> workaround
>
> d.

No, IMHO it would be too messy: I would have a user password, a sudo password, 
a root password. I don't like sudo because I don't see the limits between 
user and root, to me it's a bad solution (but I don't want to start yet 
another sudo vs root discussion).

Starting the programs with tdesu is OK, it's clear that you are root and they 
work perfectly this way. I will check if addding my user to the sudo group 
helps, but I am definitely not going to use sudo.

Thanks for the suggestion however.

Note: of course I could give the same password everywhere :)
It's not really a joke, as that's what openSuSE's install proposes (to use the 
user password for root). How they came to that idea I don't know.

Thierry