Run an executable file from Caja

As a new Linux "superuser" trying to migrate from Windows 7 I have resisted asking basic questions that can be answered by searching, but I am stuck on this. When I create an executable file from C with gcc in the Linux terminal, called say hello.exe it is given X permission. Then from the terminal I can run ./hello.exe no problem. But when I try to run it from Caja it just shows its components as a text file. I can, however, select "Run as administrator" but then I have to enter my login password. This is irrespective of which of these two settings is enabled: - Run executable text files when they are opened. - View executable text files when they are opened. I leave it as the second setting though, otherwise I get asked what I want to do every time I view or edit a text file. I have tried to launch Caja from the terminal with sudo caja (needs password) but then, Caja won't run the executable *at all* because the Run option is no longer there. How can I run an executable from Caja directly: with a double-click? Edit: Can you run an executable from *any* file manager with a simple double-click? Edit 2: Now running Mint Cinnamon with Nemo file manager but the question is basically the same. Am I missing some setting that allows an executable to be run directly? Edit 3: During my research I found [**GNOME Is Removing the Ability to Launch Binary Apps from Nautilus**](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/nautilus-remove-ability-launch-binaries-apps) : > "Or, to put it another way, you won’t be able to double-click on programs, scripts or apps to launch them using Nautilus." (*May 2018*) And as I suspect that the file manager authors develop them as derivatives of open source code (or perhaps use common system components), perhaps none of them now do. I also found this Wikipedia page [Comparison of file managers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers) has various tables. The one called [File features](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers#File_features) has the last column as "Run executable files" so I tried out several of those file managers. - *None* of them would run an executable file which I have compiled (and some of them won't even allow easy access to my work drive – which is never the system drive). But anyway, I have discovered an easy work-around for now, which is that my favourite text editor Geany will run an executable of the current source file, if it exists, from a single click or F5 keypress, without making it into a project.