On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:02:19PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:

> Sorry, I used sudo gedit for years and never encountered any problem.
> What's the source of this information?

#ubuntu's gksudo factoid has the link:

16:21 <ubottu> If you need to run graphical applications as root, use « gksudo 
», as it will set up the environment more appropriately. Never just use "sudo"! 
(See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know why)

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