[SOLVED] Open As Administrator context menu item missing?

[quonsar]

On 16.04 I had the option to select any file or folder, right-click, and choose Open As Admin. This is no longer the case? The option is simply missing from the context menu unless it is a folder i'm opening. For example, I could previously navigate to /etc, select fstab, right-click and open as admin for editing. Have I got some setting screwed up, or has something radically changed?

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uname -a
Linux arglebargle 4.15.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 17 15:39:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Mint Mate 19 Tara

[Sir Charles]

Try

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sudo apt install caja-admin

Caja Admin is a simple Python extension for the Caja file manager that
adds some administrative actions to the right-click menu:

- Open as Administrator: opens a folder in a new Caja window running
with administrator (root) privileges.
- Edit as Administrator: opens a file in a Pluma window running with
administrator (root) privileges.
- Run as Administrator: runs an executable file with administrator
(root) privileges inside a MATE Terminal.

source: Synaptic

Hope this helps!

[quonsar]

Sorry, no worky!

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caja-admin is already the newest version (0.0.1-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Pjotr]

Alternative:

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xed admin:///etc/fstab

[quonsar]

I appreciate that info Pjotr, I did not know. However, I'm having no trouble opening as Admin from command line. It is within Caja that I am missing the option.

[altair4]

This is what happens when everyone is not on the same page.

When caja-admin attempts to invoke Edit as Administrator it points to pluma because that is the default text editor for MATE. There is no pluma in Mint. It's xed in Mint.

You can install pluma then all of a sudden the option reappears in the context menu.

[gm10]

This is what happens when everyone is not on the same page.

When caja-admin attempts to invoke Edit as Administrator it points to pluma because that is the default text editor for MATE. There is no pluma in Mint. It's xed in Mint.

You can install pluma then all of a sudden the option reappears in the context menu.

This. Open as Administator is for folders and you should already have that, Edit as Administrator needs

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apt install pluma

[Schultz]

Pluma is better anyway than xed. Just my trivial .02¢ worth.

[gm10]

Pluma is better anyway than xed. Just my trivial .02¢ worth.

Literally everything is better than xed...

The sad part is xed is a pluma fork.

[Pjotr]

Pluma is better anyway than xed. Just my trivial .02¢ worth.

Literally everything is better than xed...

Why? What's wrong with it?

[Schultz]

Pjotr wrote:
Why? What's wrong with it?

It's been so long I can't quite remember, but I think they dumbed-down the UI. That's for sure the reason why I stopped using Xreader, and I'm sure that's the same reason for Xed.

[altair4]

It doesn't matter which one is better.

caja-admin is installed by default. One of it's functions is to allow the sudo user to edit a "root" owned file through the file manager. It doesn't work because it is pointing to a text editor that is not installed by default.

Before you ship release the OS:

** Fork caja-admin so it points to your default text editor.
** Or install pluma so that it caja-admin works without forking it.

What you don't want is for the user to fix this themselves because Ubuntu-MATE is sitting out there and caja-admin works as designed.

If you aren't careful your users will start demanding their money back.

[gm10]

^ agreed altair4.

Pluma is better anyway than xed. Just my trivial .02¢ worth.

Literally everything is better than xed...

Why? What's wrong with it?

Where do I even start?

It's probably the slowest editor on the planet, takes disproportionate ages to load up such a simplistic tool, and you can brew a coffee trying to open very large files with it while you've got syntax highlighting enabled. My other editors open such files and finish the highlighting in a tiny tiny fraction of the time it takes xed.

The whole admin:// thing is a bug infested crutch, between being unable to create files like that and the double authentication bug I don't go near it personally - my other editors request elevated permissions automatically where needed.

The user experience is just terrible because so many standard keyboard shortcuts are not mapped and you are basically required to use the mouse for a text editor, it's absurd.

I could go on and on, but let's just say I dislike this piece of digital garbage with a vengeance.

[quonsar]

Hey thanks all for the assist!