26 Dec
2013
26 Dec
'13
5:11 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:51:07AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 12/26/2013 10:16 AM, bruce wrote:
what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user?
Works fine as me. Only locks as root.
Maybe it is a problem with the .Xauthority file? You could test with an editor that has both terminal only, gui modes. Emacs is the only one I know of. Try starting it as emacs, if it faces the same problem it should fallback to no-window mode.
In any case, I think it is considered good practice to not use gui applications as root. I would stick to vim/emacs -nw/nano etc.
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