Comment 4 for bug 353697

With the recent xml context menu work in the 0.3.9 (rewrite) branch, it's possible to do it.

Create a custom menu (I'd suggest copying advanced.xml or custom-example.xml normally find in /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/taskmanager/menus/) to a path in the user's home.

Edit them and add something along the lines of

 <menuitem type="External-Command" cmd="gksudo $AWN_TASK_EXEC &amp;">Launch as root</menuitem>

Then start gconf-editor and navigate to \apps\awn-applet-taskmanager\ and edit menu_filename and give put in the full path to the new xml file. And it should be there.

Some of the specifics of the "External-Command" may change before a 0.4 release, so if it suddenly breaks it just means that the syntax has changed in some way. I am willing to consider putting this into advanced.xml also (comments requested)