On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Lisi Reisz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote: > > $ man dmesg > > $ man dmesg > text.txt > > You will get a text file that you can read properly, and even change > the font if you want to. > > If you want to be able to use gedit to alter root owned files, there > are two ways (other than logging in as root at the command line) that > you can achieve this: > 1. Open a root terminal by your preferred method, at the command > prompt type gedit. gedit will then be running as root. > 2.do alt-F2. in the window taht will open up type : > gksu gedit > then "enter" > Again, gedit will be running as root. > > HTH > Lisi When I decide I want to run gedit as root (not very often) I use "sudo gedit <filename> at the command line: cd /etc sudo gedit inittab or something like that. Of course, if the OP doesn't have /etc/sudoers set up nicely, I guess that won't work. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.
