Hello all! I posted this in the Debian forum (I'm using Debian Lenny with GNOME), but nobody has bitten yet, so I figured I'd post it here.

Simple request: I'm trying to launch a root terminal with a profile preloaded, but I'm not yet used to the way gnome handles its syntax, so the default link to root terminal has me confused:
Apparently, the method using gnome-terminal is to add a trailing
but this did not work, probably because in this case I'm not calling directly on gnome's terminal.

I'm sure there is an easy fix. Thanks in advance.

It doesn't work for me either. No matter if I use gksu or not. [Kubuntu 8.04].

I am assuming you'd like your root terminal to be differently coloured, or something, to remind you that it is a root terminal.

So, launch it using gksu
Create a new profile, call it roots, and customise it the way you like.
Then, in the terminal, Edit .. Profiles. Set "Profile to be used when launching a new terminal" to roots

Now root's terminal will always launch with root's profile.
Yours won't (because root's profile is stored in /root and yours in ~)

Edit .. profiles has a useful Help button too (so you can set your preferred title etc.)

It's a "workaround". Hope it helps.

Thanks for your suggestion, tredegar. What I'd ideally like to do is to have all of my profiles setup with different hotkeys, so I could launch a specific root terminal profile from my desktop. I admin a number of servers at my job and am trying to streamline my work interface. There are quite a few systems I need root access to, and it would be nice to have them separately allocated so I don't have to 'ssh host', futz around with profile settings, etc. I know it sounds lazy, but it would save me lots of time in the long run.