Gnome nautilus problem

manugupt1 · May 1, 2010, 8:43am

I am not able to run nautilus as a** root** user
A error message saying - Could not parse arguments. Cannot open display

How do i find which version is my gnome??

DenverD · May 1, 2010, 9:01am

manugupt1 wrote:
> I am not able to run nautilus as a* root* user
> A error message saying -
> _Could_not_parse_arguments.Cannot_open_display

try this:

-hold down Alt and press F2
-in resultant run popup, type and enter


gnomesu nautilus

-it should ask for your root pass and you are off…
(well, it should ask, because i do hope you have NOT logged into
Gnome as the root user)

note: if you come from another distro (i think this is an openSUSE
specific thing) you also need to know the special recipe in KDE would
be “kdesu [something]”…(i forget the reason, has something to do
with attaching windows or something geeky)

> How do i find which version is my gnome??

not sure (haven’t used Gnome in a long while), but i think if you
open nautilus (or any ‘core’ parts of gnome) and go Help > About the
version of nautilus and gnome itself are the same…(i know that works
in KDE with (say) KWrite, etc)

manugupt1 · May 1, 2010, 9:49am

It gives me the version of nautilus and not gnome

DenverD · May 1, 2010, 11:53am

manugupt1 wrote:
> It gives me the version of nautilus and not gnome

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