switching to root from desktop

[Michael Scottaline]

soraberri wrote:
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> thanks Mike
> from your words I understand that there isn't actually a direct way to 
> switch to a root sesion as if you had eventually loged in as root, 
> rigth?. Well, I think it makes sense if we think about Linux process 
> management so every and each process is running with particular 
> privileges...
> Anyway, it could be interesting to run the file manager as root without 
> the need of the terminal, or even switch to root from the file manager 
> itself. Do you know if it's possible?
> 
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depends on the file manager.  emelfm2 can do such a thing.  it actually 
has an su button.
Best, Mike