On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, John Hebert wrote: > To run a GUI app as root on Knoppix, open a shell do 'su - root', and then > run the app from the command line: 'gedit', etc. You can find the name of > the command in the menu by using the menu editor. > > Knoppix is locked down to keep people from inadvertently destroying their > data. You have to explicitly do commands that could destroy data. I realize > it is a headache, but I think the tradeoff between power and newbie-proofing > is worth it in order to provide a bootable Linux CD that is fairly safe to > give to newbies.
When I run the GUI command as root it said that it couldn't open the display? And when I did xhost + that didn't help it either. BB
