Unity - Wireshark as root in launcher?

[khaan]

Hi,


Is there a way to have a shortcut icon in the Unity launcher to execute wireshark as root (gksudo wireshark) as opposed to simply wireshark with the current user permissions?


Thanks all!

[mickyg]

Just had to figure this out myself and thought I'd reply in case you still want to do this. The application shortcuts/launchers (whatever you want to call them) are stored in /usr/share/applications.

In that directory there is a file called "Wireshark.desktop", you need to open this as root and change the line near the bottom that reads
Exec=wireshark to
Exec=gksudo wireshark

Save it and you're done!

P.S. I found while playing around with this that sometimes it worked straight away, other times I had log out and back in again for it to work.