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Why is gksu no longer installed by default in 13.04?
I have always recommended pressing ALT+F2 and typing for example gksu nautilus or gksudo nautilus both are equivalent; to run graphical programs with root privileges. However, I have just installed ...
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3answers
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Ways to run Nautilus with elevated privileges [duplicate]
What are the differences between the following ways to run Nautilus with elevated privileges:
a)
sudo nautilus
b)
gksu nautilus
c)
gksudo nautilus
Which should I use?
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1answer
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Problems running Deja Dup with elevated priveleges
As advised by this answer, I'm using
gksu deja-dup-preferences
and
gksu "deja-dup --backup"
to backup my data, including files that have root-only permissions on them.
Both of the two ways lead ...
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0answers
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How do I call policykit instead of gksu? [closed]
PCManFM has a preference called “Switch user command” that the program uses to reopen itself as root. By default, the content of the preference is “gksu %s”. The thing is, I want to use PolicyKit ...
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0answers
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Change system from asking for root to asking for sudo password
I am using a shared computer in which I have root access via sudo but not the root user's password. For some reason gksudo doesn't do the standard protocol of asking for my password (in the sudo ...
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0answers
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Error on `gksu nautilus` because Nautilus cannot create folder “/root/.config/nautilus”
I have a problem executing nautilus in root mode on a fresh installation. I just installed Ubuntu 12.04, and the first thing I did after first boot was run the command gksudo nautilus, I've got this ...
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0answers
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I cannot start GTK programs with gktsudo
I was able to do so, but some configuration must have been spoiled.
With Precise 64 bit version, when I issue this command:
gksudo gedit
I receive this error:
Cannot open display.
It also ...
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vote
2answers
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I cannot start graphical apps as root
I used to be able to do so, but something as simple as this fails now:
gksudo gedit
and this also fails:
sudo gedit
I receive the error:
Cannot open display.
I haved checked this:
...
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votes
2answers
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Allow “root” program to run without privileges
I've changed my ctrl-alt-l shortcut so instead of just locking the screen, the system goes into suspend.
(for reference, the command is gksudo pm-suspend-hybrid)
as you can see, the program needs to ...
0
votes
1answer
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Many process named “su-to-root” appeared on my system monitor, is my computer owned?
Two process named gksu and two process named su-to-root appeared on my system monitor, is my computer owned? How can I be sure, and if this true, how can I rip out the intruder without full system ...
0
votes
1answer
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Copied files from mac partition to /root. But the /-partition is still full?
Help! Using gksu-nautilus I managed to look at files on my Mac partition via as simple right-click. However, at first journaling was still enabled on the Mac partition. Therefore any copied file would ...
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1answer
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How to open a file in gedit with zenity --file-selection as root
I try to open a file in gedit with the file-selection option of zenity. It's very easy to do it for file that i can access in normal mode, but I wanna open too some configuration files (as for exemple ...
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9answers
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What is the difference between “gksudo nautilus” and “sudo nautilus”?
I've been using gksudo nautilus and sudo nautilus through Alt+F2.
What's the difference? They look very similar!
