How to add an item to the gnome menu that starts gedit as root?

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I right clicked the gnome menu and clicked on "Edit menus"

Then I clicked on "New item".

  • Type: Application
  • Name: gedit as root
  • Command: gksudo gedit
  • Comment: Launch gedit as root.

When I click it, the gksudo dialog appears as expected. But then... nothing.

How should I be doing this? (From the menu - I know it's trivial from the terminal)

Nathan Osman

Posted 2010-05-08T21:58:23.190

Reputation: 2 552

W​hich distro​? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams – 2010-05-08T22:00:29.193

Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. – Nathan Osman – 2010-05-08T22:02:22.557

1Never mind. There were nonfunctioning instances of gedit already running. I killed them and now it works as written above. – Nathan Osman – 2010-05-08T22:23:50.773

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