[SOLVED] Gnome launcher as root?

grim3271 · 2014-07-16 22:35:53

Hello.
I have two minecraft installations, One on my user account and one over at /root/
I have configured a script to run the minecraft on my user account, However for the one at /root/, I have been having a bit of a problem, When i access /root/ in thaunar as root, I can run said minecraft just fine, I made a script to also run that as root and when i run it in thaunar as root, It starts the minecraft at /root just fine, But when i set my permissions to /root/ as read only then made a launcher through alacarte, The same script launches the minecraft on my user account, Can i get any help?

Also the script used to launch minecraft from my regular account

Minecraft.sh

 optirun minecraft

Now for the root one

Maincraft

 su
cd /root/
optirun minecraft

I would be grateful for any help

Edit: My desktop environment is gnome 3
Ps:- I hope this is the correct section

Last edited by grim3271 (2014-07-18 04:54:38)

Steef435 · 2014-07-16 23:07:18

Why would you even...

su requires a password. If you want to give the password in a graphical fashion take a look at gksu.

grim3271 · 2014-07-16 23:43:37

Steef435 wrote:

Why would you even...
su requires a password. If you want to give the password in a graphical fashion take a look at gksu.

Because i need to easily switch between 2 sets of mods without editing the mods file or disabling mods

And i am just trying to make an icon that launches a specific minecraft of the two installed, I don't really think gksu can help with that :l

Steef435 · 2014-07-17 11:36:04

Right now you try to use su to get root rights. su asks for a password which you'll never be giving since you're not launching it from a terminal. gksu however aks for the password in a graphical fashion so that you can provide it even if you launch it from the gnome launcher for example.

I don't know what optirun is or does but I guess this will do the trick:

gksu optirun /root/minecraft

By the way, you could also install minecraft somewhere in your home folder so that you won't need root permissions to access it.

If you want to create a launcher you might want to look into .desktop files. See /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications.

EDIT: This is all assuming there actually is an executable file called minecraft in /root.

Last edited by Steef435 (2014-07-17 12:18:07)

grim3271 · 2014-07-18 04:54:22

Steef435 wrote:

Right now you try to use su to get root rights. su asks for a password which you'll never be giving since you're not launching it from a terminal. gksu however aks for the password in a graphical fashion so that you can provide it even if you launch it from the gnome launcher for example.
I don't know what optirun is or does but I guess this will do the trick:
gksu optirun /root/minecraft
By the way, you could also install minecraft somewhere in your home folder so that you won't need root permissions to access it.
If you want to create a launcher you might want to look into .desktop files. See /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications.
EDIT: This is all assuming there actually is an executable file called minecraft in /root.

Thanks a lot, I never though of using gksu before optirun, By the way, Optirun is a bumblebee command that basically uses the nvidia GPU if you have an "Optimus" system

Rasi · 2014-07-18 09:57:48

holy mother... why dont you just create a 2nd minecraft folder in your home...
and even if you dont, you at least create another user for the 2nd instance...

Arch Linux

#1 2014-07-16 22:35:53

[SOLVED] Gnome launcher as root?

#2 2014-07-16 23:07:18

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome launcher as root?

#3 2014-07-16 23:43:37

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#4 2014-07-17 11:36:04

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