Sudo in Gnome, cp & Wildcards, Invert Selection (OT?)

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <000301c6e658$2458fcc0$7901a8c0 at centrino>,
   Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

> It seems my ordinary user account has no rights to do that. So my
> question is, how do I perform some Gnome commands as the super user
> such as when copying or editing files?

I normally use a Ubuntu based system with a KDE front-end (the MEPIS 6
distro), so these things are a bit of a puzzle for me too.

On MEPIS, there's a system menu entry for "File Manager - Super User
mode", which is what I'd use for this (if you want a GUI interface).

It seems that you can do the same on Ubuntu/Gnome by typing the command
in the console:
  sudo nautilus

and then giving your password.  "nautilus" is the Gnome GUI file
manager.

> Also, on a side note, is there an invert selection command in Gnome?
> It would rock if I need to select all but very few files.

In a GUI window?  Select all and then CTRL-click on the items that you
want to deselect.  CTRL-click toggles the selection of an item. I think
that's the same as Windows.