gksu problems

[David Williamson]

I'm trying to learn to live with sudo, but would like to be able to
launch graphical apps without a terminal up.  I'm used to starting apps
with the alt-f2 mini command line.  So, I installed gksu.  But, with,
for example

alt-f2
gksu gqview
<enter>

I get the following dialog box:

Failed to run gqview as user root: 
Child terminated with 1 status.

Same thing with any app I try.

What am I doing wrong?  Is sudo always this much hassle?

david williamson