On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:53:01 -0400, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Bo Berglund wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:15:56 +0930, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 07:02 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: >>>> I actually first tried that, logging in as myself. But when I wanted >>>> to edit grub.conf using the text editor it would not allow me and I >>>> could not see any way of starting the text editor with root privileges >>>> either. >>> You'd issue the command for it from within that command line interface. >>> That sort of thing (having a separate CLI window for root) is the usual >>> way of starting things with root privileges when you're logged in as >>> yourself. >> >> Then I have to know what command actually starts the GUI text editor, >> and I don't... > >gedit & >for GNOME I did not know that this was the one, but now I tested it from a terminal window and sure enough it pops up the GUI window that is the same as from Applications/Accessories/Text Editor Which is what I need to get into the setup instructions of course! This solves the problem since in terminal one would do: su - password: gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf Then the editor will come up and the next thing to do is to switch off word wrap in preferences and one is ready to go. Thanks, I will put this into the docs I will prepare. Bo Berglund
