Editor can't edit

[Sven Wagschal]

Arnold Maestre schrieb:

> Now you open a terminal, and type "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst".
> Your shell asks for your password, you give it, and you get a gedit
> window, running with superuser privileges, where you can edit the
> file, don't you ?
> 
> One of the problems I see here, is that there is no GUI-fied way of
> getting a root editor. Sure, gksuexec is in the "System Tools" menu,
> but it is basically useless since it asks for the root password. Could
> we have a sudo version ?

But you needn't a terminal, you can use "Run Application", the last 
entry of the applications menu, typing gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Now one should be able to properly edit ones menus.