Missing Linux apps on Windows

[Franz Waldmüller]

Karl F. Larsen schrieb:
>  You can start Gedit from the 
> command line as root with a sudo and it can do anything VI ever did.
When you start a graphical application from the command line you should 
use the gksu command instead of sudo!

gksu gedit

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo :
Graphical sudo

You should never use normal sudo to start graphical applications as 
root. You should use gksudo (kdesudo on Kubuntu) to run such programs. 
gksudo sets HOME=~root, and copies .Xauthority to a tmp directory. This 
prevents files in your home directory becoming owned by root. (AFAICT, 
this is all that's special about the environment of the started process 
with gksudo vs. sudo).


A friend of mine started once openoffice with sudo to install 
dictionaries for all users. He then wasn't able to launch openoffice 
without root privileges

Franz