[PLUG] Problems running GUI programs as root under Jessie (MATE as DE)

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 21:10:47 UTC 2015


https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gksu

not really sure if you need gksu or gksudo, but maybe the gksudo?  Try em
both.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 07/09/2015 01:56 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I recently sent this to the debian-user mailing list, no useful
> > replies.
> > I'm unsure whether the primary problem is software or yours truly ;/
> > Though my 1st programming course used 026's as input device for a
> > precursor of BASIC, I'm newbie to anything *nix related.
> >
> > I suspect one problem may be impure terminology. Is there a
> > significant difference between "root" and "superuser"?
> >
> > Comments please.
> >
> > /BEGIN QUOTATION OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE
> >
> > I have an absolute requirement to run some GUI programs as root.
> >
> > I captured one session with script.
> >
> > Script started on Mon 30 Jun 2014 08:58:50 AM CDT
> > richard at jessie:~$ su
> > Password:
> > root at jessie:/home/richard# pluma /etc/default/grub
>
> Does Debian have gksudo? I've used it with Ubuntu, which is based on
> Debian, to run Nautilus, and sometimes gedit.
>
> So I'd try gksudo pluma /etc/default/grub. Of course, if I'm mistaken,
> I'm sure someone on the list will set me/us straight.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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