GNOME: Starting Nautilus with administrator privileges

Desktop Environments Gnome
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for nautilus:

  1. there is a package called nautilus-admin. That gives you a right click menu “open as administrator” (or similar) to open folders, or edit files as root

  2. in nautilus you can also just edit the adress bar. Hit Ctrl+L to switch in editing mode. then you can enter admin:// in the adress bar -> authentication prompt will ask for your password, and voila, you can browse as root.

Both methods work on wayland btw.

Don’t know about desktop folders. I know there used to be an extension for that, but i never used it personally.

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