Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] GUI editor as root in Etch running KDE
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:24:53PM +0100, hantslug@??? 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.
>
I do hope all mails aren't going to be prefixed with this boilerplate.
> 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.
>
Install sudo? Then you can do sudo kate or whatever the kde editor is.
