can open gedit as root

[Avidanborisov]

hi :)
I have a problem.
I cant open gedit as root.
i mean, if I just run

gedit
it works but if I run

sudo gedit
nothing happens.
what to do?

[nick_goodfate]

try

gksu gedit

[Avidanborisov]

still, nothing happens...

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Any error messages?

[Avidanborisov]

no,
just nothing happens..

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Could gedit be already open by root?
Output of

ps aux | grep gedit
?

[Avidanborisov]

OK, gedit is opened by root.
how do I close it?

[TeoBigusGeekus]

sudo killall gedit
Repeat ps command. If it's still open, repeat killall command.

[Avidanborisov]

Ok thanks :)
problem solved.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Brilliant! Don't forget to mark the thread as solved.

[Avidanborisov]

hey,
I ran gedit again as root from terminal.
then when I went back to terminal i wanted to be able to write commands to it so I pressed Ctrl+Z.
This brought me back to the normal "user@machine$"
but it made gedit unresponsive so I closed it with Force Quit.
But then the same problem, I couldn't run gedit as root again.
When I typed

ps aux | grep gedit
it showed that the process is still running so I tried to do

sudo killall gedit
but that didn't help. The process was still running.
What to so?

[TeoBigusGeekus]

sudo killall -s 9 gedit
Don't press ctrl-z; press the x button on the gedit window.

[Avidanborisov]

Ok that helped :)
but just a general question:
when I launch a program from the terminal and I dont want to close the program but I want to be able to write again commands to terminal, what should I do?

[TeoBigusGeekus]

You could just open another terminal.

[sisco311]

Ok that helped :)
but just a general question:
when I launch a program from the terminal and I dont want to close the program but I want to be able to write again commands to terminal, what should I do?

Launch it in the background:

command &

You may want to redirect its output to /dev/null:

command &> /dev/null &

Check out:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement
and
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/JobControl

[cgroza]

gnome-terminal supports multiple tabs, just open another one and do you things there.

[ajgreeny]

Actually, it is much less confusing to start gedit with the Alt+F2 run utility and command gksu gedit, rather than terminal. That way you are not left with an open terminal under the gedit window.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Actually, it is much less confusing to start gedit with the Alt+F2 run utility and command gksu gedit, rather than terminal. That way you are not left with an open terminal under the gedit window.
...or add a launcher in your menus (something like "gedit as root") with

gksu gedit
as its command.

[Avidanborisov]

...or add a launcher in your menus (something like "gedit as root") with

gksu gedit
as its command.

actually I already did that :)
I was just wondering if there is anyway to continue work in the terminal without quiting.
nevermind, I will just use a new tab.