GUI file manager on Gnome 42?

[HMS_Endeavour]

@Scotty_Trees

You mean something like this?

yes.

[pebcak]

@Shjim

EDit if have idea msg me

Artistically, I’m dry like an abandoned well!
But if I get some water/ideas, by some climate change caprice, I’ll PM you.

[Echoa]

@HMS_Endeavour

Open terminal as root would be nice.

I don’t see this as a good feature personally. You should avoid using root if possible and when you do should be with sudo and not a root terminal. I just CD and sudo from terminal as needed.

That’s just IMO though

[Echoa]

@pebcak

Won’t this fall under the category of “don’ts”:

Nautilus isn’t meant to run as root and gnome folks actually say not to do so, so yeah it’s a don’t.

I think even gnome terminal isn’t meant itself to be run as the root user for security reasons.

[pebcak]

@Echoa

I think even gnome terminal isn’t meant itself to be run as the root user for security reasons.

You mean with something like:

sudo -s
sudo su
or
su
?

[Echoa]

As in opening the terminal GUI itself as a root user.

You can call su or sudo within the terminal emulator but the actual GUI isn’t running with elevated privledges and shouldn’t be.

[pebcak]

Got it! Thanks!
Never occurred to me to that by the way.

[BONK]

The best file manager as far as root is concerned regardless the distro or de/wm is the terminal. What are people actually looking to do messing with files as root in a gui other then laziness?

[Echoa]

@BONK

What are people actually looking to do messing with files as root in a gui other then laziness?

Cause other problems by running code as root that wasn’t meant to

Linux has layers of access control for a reason, GUI apps should never be run as root

[HMS_Endeavour]

I decided t stay with Gnome File a.k.a. Nautilus, with MC a.k.a. Midnight Commander, to remind me of my age.