> Let's get the flame wars out of the way first - yes, I know that many of
> you
> prefer Gnome, and yes I know that Ubuntu is the solution to all ills, but
> they are not the solution to what I want to do because I actually do want
> to
> go to Dublin from here.
>
> How can I get a gui text editor running as root in Etch? Or is it simply
> impossible and I have got to screw my courage to the sticking point and
> use
> vi or vim? I would greet that solution with considerably less than
> overwhelming enthusiasm.
>
> I tried to do what I usually do and run the editor from the command line
> in a
> root session, but could not. Both Kwrite and Gedit refused to run and
> returned the same error: basically, both complained that xserver would not
> let them in. So I logged out and tried to login again as root, but was
> told
> that I could not login as root. I did not bother to try any other gui
> editor
> because it seemed likely that they will all return the same error message.
>
> So is the lesson I ought to be learning from this that I can't run GUI
> apps as
> root in Etch?
>
> TIA
> Lisi
>
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The easiest way is to open a terminal (Konsole), su to root and then type
in the name of the application (kate). This will open it as root.
James
PS Application names in brackets are the defaults for KDE
