Desktop launcher as root

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:42:05 -0500
"Michael V. De Palatis" <mdepalatis at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > Hello all
> > 
> >    I've been trying unsucessfully to create a desktop launcher for
> >    midnight commander but as root. I've tried gksu, gksudo, sudo,
> >    su, and gksuexec. I guess the catch is mc has to be run in a
> >    terminal as root. Nothing I have tried works. Got any
> >    suggestions, I must be missing something obvious!
> 
> I'm not sure what terminal you use, but say you use xterm, for sake of
> argument. The appropriate command could then be
> 
> gksudo 'xterm -e mc'
> 
> The -e switch tells xterm "execute the next command." Every terminal
> has some similar command, and I think it's -x in gnome-terminal.
> 
> Mike

  After trying this one and various otherf combinations Peter Garrets suggestion of
a simple " sudo mc " with the default terminal changed from gnome-terminal, 
which doesn't handle mc properly on my machine, to rxvt-unicode which does, 
it works. The root mc comes up in a small terminal window but I can handle that.

Thanks
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Cheers

Frank

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