[Novalug] Re: nautilus as root

[Don E. Groves, Jr.]

A "GUI Terminal" is the more proper name for wide the program xterm (and
those like it) try an emulate.
   See: Blueprint: "*GUI
Terminal*"<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblueprints.launchpad.net%2Fubuntu%2F%2Bspec%2Fgui-terminal&ei=Zj8OSK2AMonogAS_0um7Cw&usg=AFQjCNEXn-6DW-7Twy8CjoXEj9isO9oogg&sig2=5J7193r4vjn_oQxPTKerwQ>


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 DonJr

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What is a gui terminal?  Is that just the regular terminal from the menu
> or something else?  You mean open a terminal from within the gui as opposed
> to Alt-F1?  If so, I tried sudo nautilus and it did not work.
>
> I have never heard of gksudo before either - anyone understand the
> difference between it and sudo?  I am not seeing much through google..
>

The primary difference between sudo and gksudo is:
  gksudo handles the "magic" of passing the Graphic-Display access authority
which then allows to program to open new windows and see and even capture
the keyboard and mouse.



>
> As I wrote earlier, alt-f2, then gksudo nautilus works, but I would like
> to know how this is different from the above.
>
> Thanks!
> Igor
>
>

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Don E. Groves, Jr.

Why did my boss threaten to fire me if I another customer that they had had
an "I D ten T" type access error? ....
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