I recently sent this to the debian-user mailing list, no useful replies. I'm unsure whether the primary problem is software or yours truly ;/ Though my 1st programming course used 026's as input device for a precursor of BASIC, I'm newbie to anything *nix related.
I suspect one problem may be impure terminology. Is there a significant difference between "root" and "superuser"? Comments please. /BEGIN QUOTATION OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE I have an absolute requirement to run some GUI programs as root. I captured one session with script. Script started on Mon 30 Jun 2014 08:58:50 AM CDT richard@jessie:~$ su Password: root@jessie:/home/richard# pluma /etc/default/grub (pluma:1318): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported (pluma:1318): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18) Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18) Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18) Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18) Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18) (pluma:1318): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed (pluma:1318): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed (pluma:1318): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed (pluma:1318): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.9WQQIX': No such file or directory (pluma:1318): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory ==============pluma has opened (pluma:1318): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.WMTBIX': No such file or directory (pluma:1318): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory ================changed one character and saved file (pluma:1318): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.PRFKIX': No such file or directory (pluma:1318): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory ================closed pluma What's going on???????????????????? /END QUOTATION OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug