On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:59:08AM -0500, morpheus wrote: > why not open a console, run su -r then call your file manager from the > command line? Other than the fact that '-r' doesn't do anything? :) Seriously, I'd be hesitant to do this. Most file managers pretty complex applications to be running as root. Better to just do the fine-tuned single operations as root rather than run the whole thing that way. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>