Ben Thorp wrote: >> I will give this a try. SInce I have you online perhaps you can help >> with another problem. Whenever I attempt activate an application like >> Kate from the prompt using sudo kate I receive an error unable to >> connect to X server. > > That's because the root user doesn't have permission to access the ordinary > users X session in this way. > > In GNOME there's gksudo, which allows you to run graphical apps as root, > there's almost definitely something similar for KDE.
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