I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu.

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    You have no idea what that would do in Linux. First read some documentation, then decide if you really need it. I guess you can see by the number of people trying to put you on the right path that what you want is not a good idea.

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      7 months ago

      I’m not a child with a machine gun, I just don’t want to go to the terminal every time.

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        7 months ago

        Then let us address the underlying issue. You should not need root for the majority of tasks and never for desktop usage.

        It sounds like something got messed up when you ran a different program as root.