opening gedit using root

martin_helm · June 6, 2011, 10:37pm

DenverD wrote:

> hmmm…
> i commented out my alias and put the above in my bin… and it works
> fine in a terminal, but (again) doesn’t work from Alt+F2…
Do you use gnome? In kde it works for me (krunner with alt+f2). Let me see
what happens if I login to gnome.

martin_helm · June 6, 2011, 10:42pm

martin_helm wrote:
> Do you use gnome? In kde it works for me (krunner with alt+f2). Let me see
> what happens if I login to gnome.
Works for me in gnome as well.

DenverD · June 6, 2011, 10:53pm

On 06/06/2011 10:42 PM, martin_helm wrote:
> martin_helm wrote:
>> Do you use gnome? In kde it works for me (krunner with alt+f2). Let me see
>> what happens if I login to gnome.
> Works for me in gnome as well.

i have only kde installed…i’m wondering if i need to restart X to make
alt+f2 work (like, if i save a new alias, i have to start a new bash
session so it will read /etc/bash.bashrc.local

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oldcpu · June 6, 2011, 11:30pm

There are in fact, a number of ways to do this. I suggested gnomesu and kdesu as those what I use. But for example, one could also use as a regular user:


su -lc gedit

and enter the root password when prompted for a password.

DenverD · June 6, 2011, 11:17pm

On 06/06/2011 10:53 PM, DenverD wrote:
> i’m wondering if i need to restart X to make alt+f2 work

nope…

hmmmm…originally i thought you had made a typo when you wrote
“#/bin/sh” so i ‘improved’ it to “#!/bin/sh” which didn’t work, and
just now (after restarting X) unimproved it back to “#/bin/sh” which
still does not work…well, let me quote what i have now, maybe you
will see the error i am too blind to:


#/bin/sh
# g created 6 Jun 11 by martin_helm to launch a root powered app
# see http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=461054

xdg-su -c "$@"
exit

hmmmmm…so i comment the ‘exit’ out, and it still launches nothing from
Alt+F2

hmmmmmmmm…why do neither of these work (to see the output)

alt+f2
g kwrite >> /home/[me]/gOut.txt

nor

g ‘kwrite >> /home/[me]/gOut.txt’

i’m beginning to believe that alt+f2 is bad juju!

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martin_helm · June 6, 2011, 11:44pm

Ouch!!!

#/bin/sh is of course a typo, it just does by accident not do any harm since
it is then treated as a comment. Sorry. Seems I am blind today. But since it
is an executable text file it is just executed with the default shell.
Do you have maybe special settings so that ~/bin is not in your path when
using alt+f2? What happens if you put the file to /usr/bin (with the correct
shebang line #!/bin/sh of course)?