[SOLVED] "'gksu gedit' doesn't work

[jez9999]

The comment "gksu gedit" used to work, prompt me for a password, and run gedit as root so I could edit files that needed root access. Since I upgraded to Linux Mint 18.2, it prompts for the password, and does nothing when I enter the correct password. How can I get this to work again?

And no, I'm not interested in using another text editor. I like using gedit to edit root files so don't bother responding with something like "use another text editor".

[Neil Edmond]

Have you confirmed that gedit is installed on your system? It was not by default on my 18.2 XFCE edition...I just checked.

[JeremyB]

It still is on my 18.2 Cinnamon upgrade, check dpkg -l | grep gedit
if it isn't listed sudo apt-get install gedit

[Moem]

You probably have xedit now. Try that.

[karlchen]

Ain't it named xed only?
So the command to use in order to edit a file with root permissions would read

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gksudo xed /path/to/file/which/you/want/to/edit

[Flemur]

And no, I'm not interested in using another text editor. I like using gedit to edit root files so don't bother responding with something like "use another text editor".

You can figure out which text editor you have by opening a text file via your file-browser, then find the real name (it might stupidly call itself something like "text editor") by either Help->About, or looking at the processes which are running right after you start it: ps aux | grep $USER. If it's not gedit, then install gedit.

Edit: instead of

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ps aux | grep $USER

you could do

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ps aux | grep text-file-name-you-opened

[Moem]

Ain't it named xed only?

Yes, that looks correct to me.

[minitux]

I'm not interested in using another text editor. I like using gedit to edit root files

Mint 18 default text editor is xed, if you want gedit, install and use it

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sudo apt install gedit

and then use gedit to edit root file with gksu or gksudo

[jez9999]

You guys were right, gksu xed works. Kind of silly that gksu silently fails when the target program doesn't exist.

[Moem]

You guys were right, gksu xed works.

Great, that means that you get to mark the thread as [SOLVED] now!