From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 19:52:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C3116A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:52:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com (smtp-out.hotpop.com [38.113.3.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451C243D39 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:52:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from personrp@hotpop.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103]) by smtp-out.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 70AD4137C4CA for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 110-ccbh-131.ccbh.upmc.edu (110-ccbh-131.ccbh.upmc.edu [128.147.110.131]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45AC1A01A0; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:52:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Rod Person Organization: Open Source Beef To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, brianjohn@fusemail.com Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:51:45 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <3884.209.87.176.132.1107286387.fusewebmail-19592@www.fusemail.com> In-Reply-To: <3884.209.87.176.132.1107286387.fusewebmail-19592@www.fusemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502011451.46891.personrp@hotpop.com> X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: way to run application as root in fluxbox menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: personrp@hotpop.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:52:15 -0000 On Tuesday 01 February 2005 7:33 pm, Brian John wrote: > Hello, I want to be able to add k3b to my menu in fluxbox. However, it > has to be run as root and I'm not sure how to do that. Is there a way > that I could get k3b to automatically run as root in fluxbox? It is ok if > I have to enter my root password every time that I run it. > As for your specific question, I think you might want to look a the sudo=20 package. But, you do know that you can enable k3b to run as a regular user, if yoy=20 desire. And secondly, I had problems with k3b running in fluxbox. It could= =20 not communicate with klauncher. And without that the file window was always blank. =2D-=20 Rod ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "If you stay the same long enough you'll be in=20 style some day again." =A0Cren Dog=20 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++