I'm looking for a way to run programs from the menu that need root permission.
I've tried adding sudo to the executable in the menu:
but clicking the entry gives no result.

"sudo adept_manager" in terminal prompts for password and runs the program without problems. Adept is just an example, there are a few programs I'd like to run like this.

I'm guessing the problem is that the password prompt dialog box belongs to KDE (I'm running Fluxbox on Kubuntu) and won't pop up in Fluxbox.

I realize that all these programs can be run from terminal, but I want to set them up on the menu too, so, any ideas?

All i can say is...

the problem is going to be the password.

You could try writing a short script to type in 'su' then enter pasword, then load the program.

Then from the menu, you could just call this script

It usually turns out that the answer you spend hours looking for is right under your nose. I just had to use "kdesu" instead of "sudo"[HTML][exec] (Adept) {kdesu adept_manager}[/HTML]

It brings up the kde dialog which is good enough for me

Thanks anyway tomcdyer, I would have made a script if I hadn't found this solution

Glad you solved your problem.

Actually you can use sudo for what you want. You just have to set up your sudoers file so that it doesn't require a password to run the specific command.