Can only open Libre Office from SUDO command line

[Avi Greenbury]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM,  <jimmckenzie at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > This is the error I get from the command line when I launch L-O.
> >
> > jim at jim64bitmintlinux1104box ~ $ sudo libreoffice
> > [sudo] password for jim:
> > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-jim" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid
> > 0.
> 
> I suppose you are running KDE. In all test installations of Kubuntu
> that I have been doing for some time, no GUI app runs as root ever.

Several do, and need to. Whatever you use to modify user accounts or
file partitions, for example. GUI apps are supposed to use kdesu or
gtksu to sudo, depending on which toolkit they use.

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Avi