SU Menu App?

[VcDeveloper]

How do you create a su app in the menu? I'm unable to login at the term prompt? Why does Xubuntu make it hard to use su mode? I keep getting a failed login? It seems the only way you can use any su apps is by a dialogbox!...

[lisati]

For starters, I'd recommend (gk)sudo in place of su.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[aysiu]

Create a launcher for the command
gksudo thunar

[VcDeveloper]

Well, that does work, but when you use certain apps like editors you get a lot of file ownership error like these:



administrator@anointed-server:~$ sudo kate
[sudo] password for administrator:
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-administrator" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-administrator" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-administrator" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-administrator" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so


..... So I rather create a su app from the menu so it can create it's own config files.

[VcDeveloper]

Ok, I will give that a try!... also, I got a clean execution with gedit, so I'm aussming Ubuntu is mainly a gnome OS? Is there a gnome flavor of kate? kate is really advance and I like it!

[aysiu]

You're not supposed to use sudo with graphical applications.

Use
kdesu kate not sudo kate and
gksudo gedit not sudo gedit

[VcDeveloper]

Thanks for the help, but I would still like to create my own menu apps. So where can I get doc's showing me how?

[aysiu]

Thanks for the help, but I would still like to create my own menu apps. So where can I get doc's showing me how?
I don't have Xfce in front of me.

This may help:
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfdesktop#xfdesktop-menu

[VcDeveloper]

Thanks you so much!