[Scottish] Which distro

[William Anderson]

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.

apt-get install sux

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