I have never had any trouble running emacs or firestarter through
sudo. Is this a problem specific to kde?
On 2/15/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On fluxbox and xfce i have used kdesu successfully. I think even gksu would
> work. Someone in #kde once explained that sudo will reset the permissions of
> the above file to root since it is "ignorant" whereas {gk,kde}su knows about
> the X permissions.
>
> Rohan.
>
>
> On 2/15/06, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2006/2/15, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Never ever run X applications as root using "sudo". Always use "kdesu"
> if on
> > > kde, or "gksu" if on gnome.
> >
> > What if I use neither (xfce, *box, enlightenment)?
> > And BTW, what's the risk in using it?
> >
> >
> > bardo
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