How do I use sudo in GUI on the xfce environment?

[translucent juicebox]

I did a search and found results for Gnome, and KDE, but no Xfce. For some tasks, I can't do them in the GUI because I need to use sudo, is there an equivalent to typing sudo before a command in the terminal for the GUI?

For example, if I want to delete a file that requires root privileges to alter, I have to open terminal and do it from there, because If I try to rightclick and press delete in the menu, the delete button is grayed-out because I don't have the privileges to do so. How would I use sudo in GUI, so I can just press the delete button instead of going to the terminal?

[sisco311]

You can run your file manager as root. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or open a terminal and type:

gksu thunar

BE CAREFUL, as root you can delete anything.
DON'T delete system files or your OS. :)

CLOSE the file manager immediately after you're done.

[jsowoc]

The command to execute a graphical application (both in Gnome and in XFCE) is "gksudo". To get a GUI file manager as root, simply type: "gksudo thunar".

Cheers.

[Ptero-4]

Use gksudo (this is what gnome uses).

[translucent juicebox]

Thanks :), I didn't know that Gnome used the same command as Xfce, gksudo was exactly what I was looking for.

[sisco311]

gksu (gksudo is just a symbolic link to gksu) is a GTK+ frontend for su and sudo.
Both GNOME and Xfce are based on GTK+.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK