tightening requirements... sorta

[Erlend Davidson]

>>> I've
>>> (personally) never seen anyone complaining of this problem where the
>>> solution turned out to be "start famd."  YMMV, of course.
>>>       
>> Well that could help the situation where famd crashes... have Thunar 
>> (which uses it) start it up again.
>>     
>
> Famd is a system service that needs to be started as root.
>   
Could you use gksudo?