mousepad geometry

[Sergio]

On 11/03/2012 05:02 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 02/11/12 10:21 PM, Greg Folkert wrote:
>> Uh... *what*... if you are root already, why would it prompt you for
>> SUDO? I mean... huh?
>
> It doesn't make much sense to me either but here's an example:
>>
> root hewitt-sda2-LMDE /home/ray $  gedit /etc/fstab
>
> (gedit:5862): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session
> manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
> protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
>
> ** (gedit:5862): WARNING **: Could not connect to session bus
>
> ... as you see, I am root, and that's the msg. I get trying to edit
> fstab.  Mousepad gives me no such grief.  Perhaps this is fixable with
> gedit?
>
>>

You should login as root with 'su -' instead of just 'su'.