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#1

I am trying to do a fix I read in another post however I am having a problem running gedit.

if I type

gedit sysctl.conf

it works fine, however I wouldn’t be able to save obviously, so I typed

sudo gedit sysctl.conf

however once I added sudo it wouldn’t open I get this.

cannot open display: 
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong here.

#2

Hi
You need to use gnomesu rather than sudo


gnomesu gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

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#3

Thank you very much! I guess it’s obvious I recently switched from a different distro. I just need to get used to some of the differences. Thank you again.

#4

hi,

Another option would be to enter:

su

then

gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

or you could use vi or emacs:

sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf

or

sudo emacs /etc/sysctl.conf

Take care,
Barry.