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wireshark as root? Honestly? I've got thousands of lines in there, and I'd not trust it. And this is no longer a "live cd" as you claim it as. Installation is installation. You'll use it for more than a one time usage btw.
Actually that does not fix the issue with cli tools having links that expand to a rapidly closing xterm.
So run everything else as root. Real secure. "Make everything setuid 0!"
The point is that none of the menu items are worth anything as they spawn an xterm, which emits an error about requiring sudo, then exits. Having a metric ton list of installed tools that are displayed and are not usable seems pretty daft.
Kali is a pretty poor distro. Merely a fork of debian for no other purpose than to create clickable icons/menu items for cli applications that require sudo. So 99% of the security apps they install are presented in an unusable form. Nothing you can't do with debian and a few runs of apt-get.