I want to be able to easily and frequently edit my hosts file from a quick GUI. Any one know of one that exists?
Thanks!
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Related: How do I edit configuration files?, How do I edit the /etc/hosts file?, – Eliah Kagan Aug 02 '19 at 20:20
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As already answered hosts is just a text file so you can use any text editor. Since it exists in /etc and you cannot edit as general user you need to use sudo. The graphical frontend to sudo is gksu. So basically doing gksu YOUR_GRAPHICAL_EDITOR /etc/hosts will do it OR you can use terminal with nano and vim. I recommend nano as it is quite easy.
sudo nano /etc/hosts
In order to ease the command you can use alias.
So edit your .bashrc file in your $HOME. i.e.
In your terminal do:
nano .bashrc
Add
alias edithosts='gksu YOUR_GRAPHICAL_EDITOR /etc/hosts' OR 'sudo nano/vim/vi /etc/hosts'
and save it with Ctrl+x. And do source ~/.bashrc. Then you can use edithosts from commandline to use it.
If you use unity you may use quicklist as well What Custom Launchers and Unity Quicklists are available?
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sagarchalise's answer is great, I also discovered gnome-network-admin which includes a pretty nice interface to edit hosts
sudo apt install gnome-network-admin
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Perfect! As soon as you drop to terminal or require typing commands in alt-F2 you lose a lot of people who are not hardcore linux hackers... – Kristofer Mar 06 '13 at 16:51
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It's not a special editor as such, but you could always Alt+F2 gksudo gedit /etc/hosts.
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try one from electron apps - it has GUI, but need some manipulation with node.js installation - githab README.md has detailed info. https://electron.atom.io/apps/?q=hosts
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