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Re: Problems running GUI programs as root under Jessie (MATE as DE)



On Tue 30 Jun 2015 at 10:32:20 -0500, David Wright wrote:

> Quoting Richard Owlett (rowlett@cloud85.net):
> > 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
> 
> I see you're not logging in as root. Which aspects of being
> root are you relying on in your absolute requirement?

brian@desktop:~$ ls -l /etc/default/grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1176 Jan 29  2013 /etc/default/grub


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