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Help with Openbox menu to run command
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Hello I am using crunchbang plus plus on a dell/wyse 5470 thin client and I want to add a OpenBox menu item to turn on and off my wireguard vpn with the sudo wg-quick up wg0 and sudo wg-quick down wg0 commands
currently I have
<menu id="menu-1473049" label="Wireguard">
<item label="VPN On">
<action name="Execute">
<command>wg-quick up wg0</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="VPN Off">
<action name="Execute">
<command>wg-quick down wg0</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
but nothing happens when I click them, also I tried with sudo in the command name and it didnt work either and Im not sure how it would ask for my password from a menu command? is this even possible?
Maybe not too helpful, but could point you in the right direction: you used to be able to use "gksudo" to get the graphical popup requesting your password in lieu of sudo which would only ask for a password in terminal. I believe gksudo is deprecated/non-existent at this point but there's got to be an alternative out there. Best of luck!
Alternatively you can launch sudo inside a terminal window. For example with xterm: xterm -e sudo [some command] [some arguments] [...] This will pop up a terminal window to type your password in.
Pretty sure almost all terminal emulators have a similar argument.