Running Nautilus as Root (Super User) Status in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)

Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was the default from version 2.0 onwards.

To running nautilus as root, First way: open a terminal and type

$ gksu nautilus

Second : Creating the shortcut menu to run the Nautilus by using the Super User status in the Applications menu list.

Open Main Menu editor (System> Preferences> Main Menu). Main Menu will be presented as where the picture above.

choose system tools and click the new item will appear and create launcher

Type : application
Name : super nautilus
Cammand : nautilus docs
Comment : Open Nautilus With Root Permissions

To open nautilus as root to stay open the Applications menu> System Tools> Super Nautilus.

Finish....!!