gedit wont work

English Install/Boot/Login
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this is what i get, am i doing something wrong?

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
root's password:

(gedit:3615): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
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sudo resets the environment so the DISPLAY variable is being unset. Do ‘sudo -i’ to become root, then ‘visudo’. Find the line that says:

Defaults env_keep = "LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"

and change it to

Defaults env_keep = "LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS XDG_SESSION_COOKIE **DISPLAY**"

EDIT: look at the very end of these lines, that’s where the change is.

Or instead of using visudo, once you sudo -i type

export DISPLAY=:0.0

and use gedit to edit /etc/sudoers to add the DISPLAY to env_keep.

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Hi
Use gnomesu like so;


gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

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