Re: [Hampshire] GUI editor as root in Etch running KDE

On Thursday 29 Mar 2007 15:29, James Ashburner wrote:
> > 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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> > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.

That is what I usually do. It didn't work in Etch. :-(

Lisi