Menu > Preferences > Main Menu Editor, Accessories, New Item
Name: Root File Manager
Command: sudo pcmanfm
Comment: Open the file manager as root user
Add the item and you will then have the new item appear in the start menu accessories folder.
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2 months ago
perfect, thank you very much
8 months ago
I’m guessing most of these errors are due to being done through an SSH connection. You need to SSH with a system that has this enabled and then connect through ssh with the -X option. I use this to open the file manager on my remote RPi. Best.
1 year ago
Perfect, thanks so much!
2 years ago
Recommend everyone install webmin. remote access to everything by webpage. and I mean everything………
webmin.com backslash deb.html
2 years ago
these posts show that RPi is totally non-standard and typical of UNIX in general. Most commands are non-intuitive, no wonder I spent forty years as engineer and IT mgr using Windows.
Where did ‘sudo pcmanfm %U’ come from, out of thin air?
Yes, I got pcmanfm to work but what a rats nest. Like many explainations we are given one fact but you don’t explain how to implement it. I got the menu item eventually after much trial and error. At 77 yrs old I may not have enough time to do this again!!
2 years ago
Welcome to Linux! Linux is free….if you don’t value your time :-) In seriousness, yes as you say there are lots of frustrations like this, but that’s the trade off with a software package that is created and evolved by a massive open source community. If its not for you then yep Windows is brilliant in many ways, we use it a lot in place of Linux…but then again it has its own trade offs of course. And bear in mind that without an open source free OS, the RPi would have been unlikely to have taken off as it has. And of course many active and contributing users love Linux because it isn’t controlled by a money focused corp like Microsoft…
2 years ago
make sure you add separator that’s what i had to dop then i could see it in my menu
2 years ago
Works well. Thanks.
2 years ago
It does nothing. Just mouse hourglass for fiew seconds and no File manger windows opened.
2 years ago
Thanks. It works fine.
2 years ago
Worked, thank you so much!!!!
3 years ago
Thanks buddy, it was very helpful, I just added “sudo” before the command in the existing File Manager Properties as below:
sudo pcmanfm %U
2 years ago
sudo pcmanfm %U
No protocol specified
Cannot open display:
3 years ago
Thank you! This was a thorn in my side today!
3 years ago
it’s working
3 years ago
Just what I was looking for! Worked perfectly, Thanks
3 years ago
The Command sudo pcmanfm opens a file manager with root access thanks.
I tried 2x to create the menu item after clicking ok never found Root File Manager anywhere in the Menu
Thanks.
3 years ago
You make my day!!!
3 years ago
Ive basically given up on editing locally because file manager doesn’t have access to anything. I use webmin because it works in all the directories.
This is insane we need a file manager that has root access out of the box. This is not a desktop
we need to have access
3 years ago
Does not work!!! Get this error:
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyCannot open display:
3 years ago
your doing something wrong, works for me. saves me from fighting the console
3 years ago
This command is not designed to be used inside of an ssh shell
It only works if you will plugin keyboard and screen to your server