On Silverblue, I always used Nemo filemanager (installed via rpm-ostree, replacing Nautilus) and Mousepad text editor because Gnome text editor doesn’t do it for me.
However after a reinstall I decided to not do any layering. Flatpak only. This also means I will give the native File Manager (Nautilus?) a try.
It works fine, except for this:
With Nemo, I could right click in or on any folder and open with root rights. For example /etc
and then I could open fstab
in my texteditor and edit it.
With Nautilus, there is no context menu option to do that. There are (a bug??) 2 options, open in Terminal and open in Console. But no GUI option.
This means, I cannot edit non-user files in Mousepad. For example /etc/fstab
. I can only use Terminal and for example nano
.
Is there a way to allow editing text files via the GUI, without going to Terminal first?