<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <<a href="mailto:open@knome.fi">open@knome.fi</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Robin wrote: > Hi, me again... > > I have some favorite wallpapers that I wanted to add to Xubuntu's > collection but they were all "padlocked." Despite changing permissions > for those folders I couldn't copy and paste them from /pictures into > /usr/share/xfce4/backgrounds. > > I installed pcmanfm because it has an option to "open current folder as > root," so I was able to do what I wanted. But I wonder if I missed > something in Thunar. Shouldn't I have been able to move those files > without having to use a whole 'nother file manager? > > And if not, will I totally bork my system if I remove Thunar and just > use pcmanfm (rather than have two applications that do the same job)? > > Thanks, > Robin > (still excited about Xubuntu anyway) > > > </div>You can open Thunar as root by pressing Alt+F2 (xfrun4) and running 'sudo thunar'. </blockquote></div> Actually, the command to open graphical applications as root on (x)ubuntu is gksudo. This article [1] explains the difference between using sudo and gksudo to open an application that uses a GUI. So, Pasi's comment is correct. Just use gksudo instead of sudo. I hope this helps! Jim [1] <a href="http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo">http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo</a>