[SOLVED] HOWTO: right click and open a file in Nautilus with gedit as root

[arnieboy]

we often need to edit files as root in a text editor. Now we can do this with a right click in Nautilus (no big deal about opening in terminal but what the heck!)

gedit ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/gedit-root

Copy the following lines into the file and save it and close it.

#created by arnieboy
foo=`gksudo -u root -k -m "enter your password for gedit root access" /bin/echo "Do you have root access?"`
sudo gedit $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS

Then make it executable with

chmod +x ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/gedit-root

thats it you are all set. Now right click on any file in nautilus and under "scripts" u will find "gedit-root"
click and enjoy!
U can even select multiple files and open them in gedit as root in tabbed windows just by right clicking and using this script. The possibilities are endless.

[MButterman]

Thanks Arnie,
Breezy has been doing great. I have a question off topic though. Since I have k3b for my cd burning, how would I change the default player for mp3's from sound juicer to xmms. I have all codecs installed. thanks for the script. I've been looking for a way to do this without terminal.

My Best,
MButterman

[Nomearod]

Tanks for the how-to. This is really going to help me ^_^

i'm a noob at Linux. and sometimes I need to edit some files and I don't like go to the terminal and do the things there..

[mgor]

great tip!

[arnieboy]

Thanks Arnie,
Breezy has been doing great. I have a question off topic though. Since I have k3b for my cd burning, how would I change the default player for mp3's from sound juicer to xmms. I have all codecs installed. thanks for the script. I've been looking for a way to do this without terminal.

My Best,
MButterman

open nautilus, right click on any mp3 hit properties and change the default player from there.

[manicka]

Thanks arnieboy, this script since you made it available in hoary, has been something I have used extensively.

[arnieboy]

Thanks arnieboy, this script since you made it available in hoary, has been something I have used extensively.

thank u for all the appreciation manicka :)

[oldlucky]

Thankyou so much arnieboy that is a great tip.This is such a great forum you learn so much on here.

Cheers oldlucky

[hanzj]

how about a nautilus hack that allows sudo access to moving/renaming/et cetera of restricted folders/files?

[Omnios]

Cool Im also looking for right click open file as root. Used mostly to play abound with and update games with hacks and patches.

Edit re: does it work in 5.10 noticed that before end edited while you where posting. I was doing a bunch of searches and confused it with a 5.04 post