Right-click -> 'sudo Open With....'

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 02 May 2006 09:44:15 +0700
Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:

> Is this feasible and/or has it ever been discussed:
> 
> In nautilus, when browsing a file you don't have (write) access to, but
> you are a sudoer, wouldn't it then be handy to have an additional menu
> option that didn't just say 'Open with text editor', or 'Open with ...'
> but 'sudo open with text editor' or 'sudo open with' ?
> 
> That would save a lot of cli terminal action I think...  You could then
> just edit a config file straight from the graphical environment.  
> 
> Current workarounds are doing a Run... 'sudo nautilus' or 'gksudo text
> editor'... but it's extra clicks/steps and not intuitive. 
> 
> Thoughts?

You might enjoy

http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/

There is a bundle of scripts, or for example , "root-nautilus-here" which
uses gksudo

http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/nautilus-scripts/Execute/Misc/root-nautilus-here

HTH :)

Peter

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