I’m back on Fedora KDE for the first time in a year or so. I decided to switch back from openSUSE Tumbleweed to see what was going on with Fedora. I have a couple of issues. I did something in setup that changed how the root password works. I have a short password since I have a longer decrypt password. Auto login is working fine but Plasma NEVER asks me for my root password. That’s ok sometimes but it makes the lock screen useless since it no longer locks if I walk away from my computer.
The other issue I’m having is changing icons. I sometimes want to change the icon an app uses in the start menu and the taskbar. I use the “Edit Applications” menu to change the icon but the setting will not save. I can change the command line for an app and that saves but not the icon. I’ve tried different icon formats but so far, no luck.
Do you actually mean the “root password”, or do you mean the login password for your user account? The “root password” is the password for the root user, and you should never be logging in as root under any circumstances.
(And with sudo, you can gain temporary root privileges when needed by typing your user account password for authentication, so there’s typically no reason to EVER use the root password for anything.)
If it’s your user account password, and you’re being auto-logged-in, is it possible your account just doesn’t have a password at all? It’s possible you didn’t create one (or you set the root password, instead), in which case you may just need to set a password for your account. You can do that from the command line with the passwd command (run it with no arguments to start the interactive password-changing process) — if it doesn’t prompt you for your old password first, then that means you just didn’t have one set.