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Before upgrading to 12.04 (from 10.04) I used this little launcher script: 

 #!/bin/bash  
 gksudo nautilus /var/www/DFDII & sleep 5; gksudo gedit /var/www/DFDII/iindex.php

This script opened both nautilus and gedit with just one PW entry, now it asks for PW twice ?

Also, annoyingly, now gedit also open "untitled document 1" (close > save changes ? NOOOOO!...

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Two main options:

  1. Demand that the whole script be run as root. Lots of scripts just exit out and suggest the user prepend the command with gksu.

  2. Run things like this:

    #!/bin/bash
gksu -- bash -c 'whoami; whoami; whoami # all these return root'
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Thank you Oli - this works: gksu -- bash -c 'nautilus & sleep 5; gedit' But only if I add the "sleep 5" - without it, gedit doesn't start until I close nautilus - why ? – Thomas Sep 3 '12 at 21:14
@Thomas because nautilus is running in the foreground. It's not running as that user so takes over the terminal. The & puts it in the background. nautilus & gedit should work. – Oli♦ Sep 3 '12 at 21:35
Right you are :) Thanks again. Any idea why gedit (also) opens "untitled document 1" (or why it thinks it's been altered when I try to close it) ? – Thomas Sep 3 '12 at 21:58
Sorry - it's a known bug but that's all I can say to help. I tried playing around with its options but nothing seems to work around the tab issue. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/890041 – Oli♦ Sep 3 '12 at 22:33
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try this. it ask's for root permisions for the entire gnome-terminal.
and runs everything with root priveleges. About gedit opening an unwanted tab... i don't know how to fix that ;(

 #!/bin/bash    
sudo su&&nautilus /var/www/DFDII & sleep 5; gedit /var/www/DFDII/iindex.php
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I'm not sure that would do what you think it does. Test it with sudo su&&whoami. You become root but whoami wont run until you stop being root, at which point you become a normal user again. – Oli♦ Sep 3 '12 at 14:54
At first i tested it like so "sudo sh test.sh" and it worked i could save the iindex.php. but i made the file executable. and dubbelclicked it. Then no root nautilus end no root gedit??? – blade19899 Sep 3 '12 at 17:00

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