gksu problems

[Jeff Waugh]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 22:30 -0400, David Williamson wrote:
> 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?

You need to run gksudo gqview. gksu is equivalent to su, gksudo is
equivalent to sudo.

(Dare I ask why you want to run gqview as root?)

- Jeff

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