On 07/09/2015 01:56 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I recently sent this to the debian-user mailing list, no useful > replies. > I'm unsure whether the primary problem is software or yours truly ;/ > Though my 1st programming course used 026's as input device for a > precursor of BASIC, I'm newbie to anything *nix related. > > I suspect one problem may be impure terminology. Is there a > significant difference between "root" and "superuser"? > > Comments please. > > /BEGIN QUOTATION OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE > > I have an absolute requirement to run some GUI programs as root. > > I captured one session with script. > > Script started on Mon 30 Jun 2014 08:58:50 AM CDT > richard@jessie:~$ su > Password: > root@jessie:/home/richard# pluma /etc/default/grub
Does Debian have gksudo? I've used it with Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, to run Nautilus, and sometimes gedit. So I'd try gksudo pluma /etc/default/grub. Of course, if I'm mistaken, I'm sure someone on the list will set me/us straight. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
