hmmm for example under gui what i do if i need to edit a file or something or something like that i su myself and then just start "gedit".. that way i'm running gedit as root.. you can do that with any program.. don't think that's really what you asked but i didn't understand it that good so..
something came to me now.. you can run a nested xserver.. you can do that under slackware 9.0 (you can select it at install somewhere in the xapps or something like that) and then you can just fireup a window and in that window you can just login as root and like that you can work as root and as user

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