Nervous Mouse Syndrome

[Derek Broughton]

Joseph wrote:

> Karl Larsen wrote:
 
>> Joe you have been given, by accident I hope some very bad information.
>> For example gksu is really sudo. 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.

As usual, Karl is the one giving bad advice, because he really doesn't have
a clue.

You would need to use "gksu gedit" if you want to change the xorg.conf,
because the user Joseph should NOT be able to save files to /etc/X11/, and
often shouldn't be allowed to read them.  In this case, just to read it,
gksu isn't necessary, but you're trying to change something.

gksu lets you run as the root user, if you have permission.
gedit is the _Gnome_ editor.  You _won't_ have it if you're running kubuntu. 
That would seem not to be the case - you managed to run "gedit", but you
couldn't save anything.

Anyway, it's not really smart to try to run commands like this from the GUI,
but you can right click on the file, and when it prompts for a program,
type "gksu gedit" - you don't need to be able to find these files, the
system will do it.

You don't
>> 
>>     So what you want to do is cd
> 
> To be honest, I'm not sure what you mean.  How does one "CD."

Karl is assuming you're in a terminal.  It would really be better if you
were, but you _don't_ need to "cd" anywhere.
-- 
derek