SuSE (Yast2) in the menu

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Gerald Barre wrote:

:Le Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:01:22 -0700
:Sean Montgomery <sean.montgomery at gmail.com> s'exprimait:
:
:> Hi all,
:
:Hi,
:
:> I am new to XFce and am loving it.  Heck I am new to Linux.  Anyway, I
:> have been trying to add yast2 to my right click menu.  The only way I
:> can get it to run is by opening a terminal and typing "sudo
:> /sbin/yast2" and then supplying the password.  XFce never asks for a
:> password.  Is there a way to get this to work from the menu.  Thank
:> you in advance.
:
:There's a GUI for su which don't depends on Kde or Gnome, it's gksu.
:The command will be : gksu /sbin/yast2.
:
:grep-available -P gksu -s Depends,Description
:Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgksu0,
:libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.2.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1), libpango1.0-0 (>=1.2.1)
:Description: graphical frontend to su
:gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells
:and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It
:is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need
:to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.

To get aptitude running in a terminal from the menu, eg, I do 'xterm
-T aptitude -e "su -c aptitude"' in the command box;  I just do 'xterm -T
"Root Window" -e su' to get a root window.  In both cases, I'm prompted
for the root password.

Patrick