

Nautilus Admin ( nautilus-admin) is a simple Python extension for the Nautilus file manager that adds some administrative actions to the right-click menu: In addition to this gksu and gksudo don't work for starting graphical applications as root in Wayland in Ubuntu 17.10: Why don't gksu/gksudo work with Wayland? and the gksu package has been dropped from the default Ubuntu repositories in Ubuntu 18.04 and later. Running any graphical interface applications as root can result in file corruption, especially if the graphical interface application is a text editor. Xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist On coming to command #3, I got this error export DISPLAY=:0.0 # use the value of DISPLAY you've seen 3 lines before.xauth merge ~alien/.Xauthority # use your own username here instead of "alien".sudo -i # or "su -" on older Slackwares.echo $DISPLAY # you'll be needing this value 3 lines below.I found this question with the same error but no solution Unable to launch gedit with sudo I need to have this capability to open files in Gedit as root. Using gksudo doesn't help either which returns Cannot open display:Īny help guys.
Gedit command not found full#
Run 'gedit -help' to see a full list of available command line options. When I run sudo gedit /path/to/some/random/file I get the following error ** (gedit:6262): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch -autolaunch=7f8731869e1c690b8205727e0000000a -binary-syntax -close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
