Need help trying to create Gnome Root Terminal menu shortcut.

[Spork_Schivago]

@malcolmlewis

Hi
First off you need to use gnomesu -c <some-command> and you need to mark it as trusted… so open Naultilus and browse down to ~/.local/share/applications in here, you will see the desktop entry looking like a file, double click on it and mark as trusted, then it will show the dektop file with it’s icon. Now double click on it and you should be good to go.

If it’s still failing, the add DBusActivatable=true to the desktop file.

Thank you Malcolmlewis. This is my new root-terminal.desktop file:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
X-SuSE-translate=true
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;TerminalEmulator;
Name=Gnome Root Terminal
Icon=utilities-terminal
GenericName=Gnome Root Terminal
Exec=/usr/bin/gnomesu -c "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal"
Encoding=UTF-8
Comment=Provide a root shell.
DBusActivatable=true

Regardless of whether I use gnomesu -c or xdg-su -c, it still just asks for the password but never opens up the terminal program, even with the DBusActivatable=true key. Even if I hit ALT-F2 and type:

gnomesu -c /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

The same happens. I get asked for the password but gnome-terminal never starts. Could it have something to do with my user spork running X-Windows but it’s somehow trying to look for a X-Windows session that might of been started by root instead of spork?

Any more suggestions? Thanks!