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DripGeronimo@lemmy.zip to Fedora Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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DripGeronimo@lemmy.zip to Fedora Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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    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

    https://github.com/enielrodriguez/optimus-gpu-switcher

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

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

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