Error when using "sudo Nautilus", how do I solve it?

Question

Here is the terminal log.

How do I fix it? What does it do? Is it safe or okay?

Possible duplicate of How to be granted root rights while browsing files/directories with Nautilus — karel, Oct 01 '19 at 08:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '12 at 23:37

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Nautilus is a graphical application so you ought to use gksudo instead :

gksudo nautilus

When you want to do graphical things with high prilivegies, gksudo and gksu are much more convinient than sudo and su.

answered Nov 16 '12 at 23:37

air-dex

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 01 '19 at 08:20

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In Ubuntu 18.04 gksudo is gone.

Instead, try:

sudo -H nautilus

edited Oct 01 '19 at 08:20

BeastOfCaerbannog

answered Oct 01 '19 at 08:08

Petra

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '12 at 10:18

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It is an uncritical message; nautilus should run normally; for reference see this report at launchpad.

answered Nov 16 '12 at 10:18

Tom Regner

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