i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:56:59 +0000Run GUI programs as roothttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/Hi ! I just want to run GUI programs as root. Such as unetbootin. There is a way i'm sure ! I tried i3-msg exec su -c unetbootin but of course it would never ask me for the password. I also tried doing i3-msg exec unetbootin as root, didn't work ("i3-msg: Could not connect to i3 on socket "/tmp/i3-ipc.sock": No such file or directory"). Any idea ? Cheers ! GaëlTue, 08 Oct 2013 23:19:19 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/Comment by gagou9 for <p>Hi !</p> <p>I just want to run GUI programs as root. Such as unetbootin.</p> <p>There is a way i'm sure ! I tried i3-msg exec su -c unetbootin but of course it would never ask me for the password. I also tried doing i3-msg exec unetbootin as root, didn't work ("i3-msg: Could not connect to i3 on socket "/tmp/i3-ipc.sock": No such file or directory").</p> <p>Any idea ?</p> <p>Cheers ! Gaël</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2653#comment-2653Ok, really related to https://faq.i3wm.org/question/123/automatic-question-for-root/ ...Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:23:01 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2653#comment-2653Answer by bruno.braga for <p>Hi !</p> <p>I just want to run GUI programs as root. Such as unetbootin.</p> <p>There is a way i'm sure ! I tried i3-msg exec su -c unetbootin but of course it would never ask me for the password. I also tried doing i3-msg exec unetbootin as root, didn't work ("i3-msg: Could not connect to i3 on socket "/tmp/i3-ipc.sock": No such file or directory").</p> <p>Any idea ?</p> <p>Cheers ! Gaël</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?answer=2656#post-id-2656Gksudo? Or open a terminal and hit sudo command? Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:30:00 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?answer=2656#post-id-2656Comment by gagou9 for <p>Gksudo?</p> <p>Or open a terminal and hit sudo command?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2740#comment-2740Hi! Now that gksu is installed, when launching unetbootin from a terminal, I get asked for root password. I think unetbootin tries gksu/gksudo/whatever gives root rights. Before all this I had kind of a "cannot connect to display :0" or something !Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:56:59 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2740#comment-2740Comment by gagou9 for <p>Gksudo?</p> <p>Or open a terminal and hit sudo command?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2657#comment-2657Hey ! That's what I tried first, got No protocol specified unetbootin: cannot connect to X server :0.0 gksu from Dmenu doesn't work, neither from the terminal.Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:01:35 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2657#comment-2657Comment by bruno.braga for <p>Gksudo?</p> <p>Or open a terminal and hit sudo command?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2739#comment-2739That looks like a different problem. can you open unetbootin from a terminal? It works just fine for me.Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:06:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2652/run-gui-programs-as-root/?comment=2739#comment-2739