On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:04:54 -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote > I use Midnight Commander. This is my personal preference because it > works quite affectively in text mode as well as in a terminal. And > when running in a terminal, it already configured out of the box to > run some x-windows applications, and the rest are configurable. The > cool thing is that the way it's originally configured, it knows when > it's running in a terminal and when it's just running on the > console. It's versatility alone makes it my choice. I start mc using a Gnome panel laucher with gnome-terminal --hide-menubar --geometry 151x48+40+30 -t "admin's mc" -e mc which works. I would like to do the same thing from a non-root account, but do a su - < password before starting mc so that mc has root capability. The only way I have found to do that is to start a gnome terminal first with gnome-terminal --geometry 122x32+10+30 --window-with-profile=root2 where root2 has a su - (have to manually enter in the password). I then start mc from that root terminal with gnome-terminal --hide-menubar --geometry 151x48+40+30 -t "root's mc" -e mc & This works, but seem rather circular. Question, is there an easier way a non-root Gnome panel launcher start mc with a root shell?
