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Yeah.

That doesn't work for me. Instead of opening a .desktop app to edit, the gksudo thunar %f cmd opens the application.

Yes, but I thought the point of your custom action was to both edit files and open folders with root permissions. Your action accomplishes this. The one with gksudo thunar does not.

Well, with the gnome-open custom action, Gnome is opened when you open a directory with root permissions. I prefer using Thunar to open all directories and gedit for editing files that require root access.

I need 2 custom actions to accomplish this, however, with the "appearances" properly set, the two actions do not show up simultaneously.

Name: Open Directory as Root
Description: Opens the current folder with root permissions
Command:

gksu thunar %f

File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories
*Caution with the root access

Name: Edit as Root
Description: Opens selected text file with root permissions
Command:

gksu gedit %f

File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Text Files
*I use gedit as my text editor, but you can substitute gedit for any text editor you wish.
*Caution with the root access

Last edited by nabilalk (2010-02-20 22:51:03)

Hi,

Could it be possible to have, just like in #! 9.04 with pcman, the possibility to press F4 to activate "open terminal here" ?

I must say that I like Thunar a lot, but I built pcman 0.97 with direct udisk support about a week ago and am loving it.  It'll automount now without the use of HAL/GIO/GVFS, but it has network support like Thunar/Nautilus by using GIO/GVFS.  Really good stuff.