Text editor won't let me edit conf files. How do I?

[Kevin Kofler]

David Ward wrote:
> I'm not good at the command line (Just past newbie).  I try to edit .conf
> files to set up samba but the text editor tells me I don't have
> permission.  All of the system admin functions ask me for authorization
> and then let me do whatever but not the text editor.  I have added the gdm
> group to  the directories the gnome docs told me to (/run/gdm).  I have
> added the gdm group to my user group profile.  How can I get a GUI text
> editor to let me edit .conf files?

The most reliable way to run GUI apps as root is using kdesu from
kdebase-runtime.

kdesu kwrite foo.conf
or
kdesu gedit foo.conf
should work as expected.

        Kevin Kofler