tropdoug
January 1st, 2009, 08:28 AM
Sincle migrating a few days ago to Kubuntu 8.10 to givw KDE a try I have been frustrated in that using a terminal I could not get Kate (the advanced text editor) to open as 'root' to be able to edit and save config files like /etc/fstab
I finally found out what to do just now, and thought others might be having the same problem.
the command to use is simply --
kdesudo kate /filename various old posts suggest other commands like sudo su but they did not work. this one did, and now I am a happy camper again.
Hope this helps someone
(by the way I use yakuake - a dropdown terminal emulator -- BRILLIANT!)
I finally found out what to do just now, and thought others might be having the same problem.
the command to use is simply --
kdesudo kate /filename various old posts suggest other commands like sudo su but they did not work. this one did, and now I am a happy camper again.
Hope this helps someone
(by the way I use yakuake - a dropdown terminal emulator -- BRILLIANT!)