On 4/7/20, Alexis Grigoriou <ale...@nanoid.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 01:40 +0800, kaye n wrote: >> I was just wondering if there are easier ways to open Thunar file >> manager as root? >> >> Right now what I do is this: >> >> Open xfce4-terminal, >> Execute: sudo thunar >> Type my password. >> > > You could press Alt-F2 and enter sudo thunar. > Since I don't use sudo, I can't test if it works. But I can see no > reason why it shouldn't work.
I actually tried that myself a little bit ago. It didn't work. The reason I thought to try it is that I *have* had that work for something in the past. I'm guessing it maybe worked on either a different Debian release or different Linux distribution entirely.. That ALT+F1, F2... I stopped doing that only with this Dell Inspiron Duo laptop I'm on. Takes too much coordination of my fingertips because I have to (keep remembering to) hit Fn+ALT+F2 for it to function. It seems like there's a toggle switch somewhere that triggered a "Hey, wonder what THAT CHOICE does when you click it?" moment. Whatever that option is, what it (apparently) does is make you have to toss in that Fn key on regular occasions that you don't use it for on other keyboards... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed (sometimes stuck up under the keycaps) *
