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quangtruong1985
Asked: 2011-08-02 17:17:27 +0800 CST

How to execute applications with super-user privileges in Gnome-Do

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I want to execute XAMPP CONTROL PANEL via Gnome-Do. But after I typed the sudopassword for authentication nothing happened. The Laucher is located in /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel and executes gksudo python /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel.py properly. How can I do that with Gnome-Do?

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1 Answers

  1. You should never use sudo to launch graphical applications. Use gksudo instead. If you want to shorten the command, then you can make a file such as this: 

    #!/bin/bash
gksudo some command

    Place it somewhere you like, in /usr/bin, for instance and make it executable. Then you can just run filname (the name you gave the file) to run it. It will ask for your password and run the command as root.

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