[Scottish] Which distro

[Kenny Duffus]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:17, Ben Thorp wrote:
> > I will give this a try. SInce I have you online perhaps you can help
> > with another problem. Whenever I attempt activate an application like
> > Kate from the prompt using sudo kate I receive an error unable to
> > connect to X server.
>
> That's because the root user doesn't have permission to access the ordinary
> users X session in this way.
>
> In GNOME there's gksudo, which allows you to run graphical apps as root,
> there's almost definitely something similar for KDE.
>

yep kdesu or in konqueror:

right click on the file
actions -> edit as root

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	Kenny