Running Pycharm as root from launcher

Question

How is it possible to run Pycharm from the launcher with root privileges?

I can do that from the terminal window, with sudo ./pycharm.sh, but I\'d like to d

Answer 1

I have Pycharm-community 2020. I edited the

/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop

file with nano just modified the Desktop Entry as follow:

[Desktop Entry]
X-SnapInstanceName=pycharm-community
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=root PyCharm Community Edition
Icon=/snap/pycharm-community/222/bin/pycharm.png
Exec=sudo env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop /snap/bin/pycharm-community %f
Comment=root Python IDE for Professional Developers
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-pycharm-ce
StartupNotify=true

that is: added the sudo command in front of the EXEC item, put "root" in front of couple of fields (see above) and saved with a different name:

/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/root_pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop

now I have two icons in the launcher, one that is the standard and the other one with "root" as leading word in the description and runs as root.

Note: the original desktop launcher (which is still there):

[Desktop Entry]
X-SnapInstanceName=pycharm-community
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=PyCharm Community Edition
Icon=/snap/pycharm-community/222/bin/pycharm.png
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop /snap/bin/pycharm-community %f
Comment=Python IDE for Professional Developers
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-pycharm-ce
StartupNotify=true