Advanced users • Re: Right-click context menu item "Edit as Administrator" or "Edit as Root"

The trick to finding the info on the web is that right clicking is invoking the context menu. So searching for "add context menu items to pcmanfm" got me https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 63#p516863

I tried it out on Pi4B 4G running stock RasPi OS Bookworm under Wayland and it's easy to set up.

1. Right click a plain text file in your home directory and choose Open with...
2. Choose the Custom Command Line tab
3. Enter sudo mousepad as the Command line to execute:
4. Enter Mousepad as Root as the Application name
5. Click OK

Now whenever you right click a plain text file Mousepad as Root will be an option in the menu. Mousepad will also helpfully have a red warning banner reminding you that you are running as root and can harm your system.

FYI - the desktop entry file is saved @ ~/.local/share/applications

Statistics: Posted by Paul Hutch — Mon Aug 26, 2024 11:07 pm

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