Menu commands to open applications as root - how to?

[Terry]

Timothy White wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> Timothy White wrote:
>>     
>>> On 11/30/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Many thanks.  Is there an option for anyone who does not have Kde or
>>>> Gnome installed?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> gksu or gksudo depending obviously if you want su or sudo
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks.  For some reason, they don't work here.  Another detail to
>> search for one day.
>>     
>
> Check they are installed, and work from a terminal first.
>
> Tim

Ah.  I guessed they were part of Xfce.  I don't have them and Synaptic 
cannot find them in the repositories.

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