I thought gksudo
is what sudo
is in terminal. I wanted to open SciTE eleveted and change some "protected" file, so I issue 'gksudo SciTE`, but nothing happens, SciTE isn't run at all - gksudo dialog shows, then I enter my password, but program doesn't start.
Is there some limitation which programs can be run under gksudo
, or how do I run SciTE elevated?
~/.local/bin/SciTE
(which is in my PATH env set in.bashrc
) which is not recognised when rungksudo
for some reason. So runninggksudo ~/.local/bin/SciTE
works. – zetah Jan 15 '12 at 09:18