On 7/21/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using Ubuntu Feisty amd64 with Gnome desktop, and all I had to do > was open a terminal and type "sudo nautilus." After giving it the root > password Nautilus opened up as always, except I was root so I could > copy, move or delete any file. Actually, almost always the reason I > need a root Nautilus is so I can fix permissions. > > If I needed to do it often I'd just create a launch menu item for it. Hi John, The problem with this is that starting nautilus without --no-desktop is that nautilus will start managing your desktop as the same user that nautilus was started with (even though emblems indicate no change in permissions...). I'm not sure this is too desirable when working as root. Cheers, Tim _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
