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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302284017 by Neo on Wednesday 4th of February 2009 01:39:56 PM

02-04-2009

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

Yes I agree, but Apple has made it so everything can be done through the GUI, no command line needed. They also have added tons and tons of command line applications that interface with their applications from the GUI, which is really nice.

Just a nit, sorry.....

I don't do "everything" from the command line on my OS X machine.

Yes, the GUI permits many things, perhaps even most things for the average user, but it does not faciliate "everything" as mentioned above.

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

xdg-su

XDG-SU(1)																 XDG-SU(1)

NAME

       xdg-su - run a GUI program as root after prompting for the root password

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-su [-u user] -c command

       xdg-su {--help --manual --version}

DESCRIPTION

       xdg-su provides a graphical dialog that prompts the user for a password to run command as user or as root if no user was specified.

       xdg-su is for use inside a desktop session only.

       xdg-su discards any stdout and stderr output from command.

OPTIONS

       -u user
	      run command as user. The default is to run as root.

       --help Show command synopsis.

       --manual
	      Show this manualpage.

       --version
	      Show the xdg-utils version information.

EXIT CODES

       An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

       1      Error in command line syntax.

       2      One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

       3      A required tool could not be found.

       4      The action failed.

SEE ALSO

       su(1)

EXAMPLES

       xdg-su -u root -c "/opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI --install fast"

       Runs the /opt/shinythings/bin/install-GUI command with root permissions.

AUTHOR

       Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White.
       <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
       <jwhite@codeweavers.com>

This is release 0.5 of the xdg-su Manual			    07/31/2006								 XDG-SU(1)