Some questions for a newbie
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at drizzle.com
Mon Jul 28 04:58:56 CEST 2003
Michael Mosier wrote:
>I know I may be a bit behind the times for not using sudo, but personally I have
>this in my menu:
>
> xfterm4 -e "su -c programname"
>
>That opens up a terminal where I'm prompted for a password, then the terminal
>closes and my gui app opens.
>
>
>
I just read this thread and was about to suggest this when I saw your
message. That's what I do, and you can add a geometry to the call to
xterm if you don't want a full size xterm.
xfterm4 -geometry 40x3 -e "su -c progname"
(or just xterm instead of xfterm4)
--
Ken
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