Hello,
I have Linux Mint 18.3 and when I try anywhere on y computer to right click and use open ass root it simply does not work. The option is there I click it but nothing happens. Could you please tell me on how I can solve it?
Thank you for your help. I wrote gksudo thunar in the terminal. It prompted me to install the package as I did not have it and after that everything was working perfectly normal again.
[SOLVED] - Open as root not working
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[SOLVED] - Open as root not working
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Re: Open as root not working
Try this:
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gksudo thunar
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Re: Open as root not working
Can you open up a terminal and then run your file manager from there, then once again try that right-click feature, and post us any output you get. If you use thunar, then it's just a case of opening the terminal and entering
thunar
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Re: Open as root not working
I opened thunar through the terminal and got this warning message.
I tried then again to do the right click open as root but it did not work.Re: Open as root not working
How bizarre. I was just reading about squelching those errors yesterday. They're supposedly harmless messages, just annoying to see. I have a function which can be used to blank out undesireable messages like this:
https://github.com/terminalforlife/bash ... ctions#L41
Don't panic, it's not something you need to actually use.
Maybe this thread could help you: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=263770&p=1432658#p1432285
Unfortunately, this error messages doesn't seem to relate to gaining root privileges, so is probably a separate (non-)issue.
Do you by any chance have the gksu package installed?
I'm just guessing that right-click and open as root thing uses gksu/gksudo to gain root privileges.
https://github.com/terminalforlife/bash ... ctions#L41
Don't panic, it's not something you need to actually use.
Maybe this thread could help you: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=263770&p=1432658#p1432285
Unfortunately, this error messages doesn't seem to relate to gaining root privileges, so is probably a separate (non-)issue.
Do you by any chance have the gksu package installed?
which gksu gksudo
Run that command, and if you see something like what's below, then they're installed. I'm fairly sure they come with Mint and other GUI-orientated distributions as standard.Code: Select all
$ which gksu gksudo
/usr/bin/gksu
/usr/bin/gksudo
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