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How do I run this KDE Plasma widget (Optimus GPU Switcher) as root? Entering my password doesn't work. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by DripGeronimo to c/[email protected]
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[–] DripGeronimo 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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