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?
I understand there is an even easier way thats build into other file managers but not by default available in Nautilus. Via Nautilus Extensions you get the admin extension. It adds a right click context menu option.
To my suprise, Nautilus extensions, made possible by Gnome Project, are not Gnome extensions. Very strange and inconsistent!
It means you’d have to use rpm-ostree layering just for adding small functionality to the file manager, possibly breaking smooth updates by doing so. That’s really too bad
But thanks for the workaround I’ll use that for now until it annoys me.
