Nervous Mouse Syndrome

[Karl Larsen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:49 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Joe you have been given, by accident I hope some very bad information.
>> For example gksu is really sudo.
>>     
>
> No, gksu _is the right tool to use. sudo should never be used to start
> graphical applications, as this could cause problems:
>   
    I'm an old guy so explain what the problem is. I just did this:

In a terminal I typed sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and it came up just 
fine and I wrote my name as the first line on the file. I then saved it 
and quit. I looked again and it was there so I  did write to a root file.

     What is wrong with this?

Karl




> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo (in the "Notes" section)
>
>
>   
>>  Now gedit is on all Ubuntu versions I 
>> think. Look at Applications -> Accesories -> Gedit and it will come up
>> on your screen. It is very easy to use.
>>     
>
> The reason the OP was told to use gksu is that otherwise he won't be
> able to use gedit to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, as it does not
> have the permissions set to let ordinary users change it. HE needs to
> elevate his privileges by using gksu.
>
> To the OP: go to menu Applications/Accessories and open "Terminal". Then
> enter "gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf" on the command line and press
> Enter. (You can select the above command with the mouse and paste it
> into the terminal with a click of the middle mouse button.)
>
>   
>>     So what you want to do is cd
>>     
>
> ???
>
>
>   


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