mousepad geometry

[Sergio]

On 11/03/2012 05:32 PM, Sergio wrote:
> On 11/03/2012 05:29 PM, Sergio wrote:
>> 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'.
>>
>
> Or use beesu
>
> beesu gedit /etc/fstab

Or just use nano (tip: F3 saves the file).