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Is there a simple way to run any program as root from the unity launcher?

I often run into situations where I'd like to run a program as root.
E.g. today wanted to run the Disk Usage Analyzer as root since it only gives me half the information otherwise.

What I was looking for was some context-menu entry in the unity launcher or in the "task bar" (how is the quick launcher at the right officially called?) but didn't find any.

What I ended up with, was using Google to find out the name of the Disk Usage Analyzer command which is baobab which I then started in the bash using gksudo.

Alternatively I'd be happy to have some easy way to find the internal command of an application which is shown in the unity launcher. E.g. baobab for the Disk Usage Analyzer.

suamikim
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  • Related: [How to find out the terminal command of an application?](http://askubuntu.com/q/126268/329173) – Ajeet Shah Sep 30 '16 at 08:41
  • Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, looking through the answers gives me the impression that there is no "easy" way to accomplish this. I guess using Google is faster than all of those approaches... What I'm actually missing here is to achieve this from within the launcher. Again by a context menu with some entries like `Go to location`, `Properties`, `Open as Root` to prevent firing up Nautilus etc... – suamikim Sep 30 '16 at 08:52

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