Virtualbox Ubuntu 12.04 Cannot Open Display Under Superuser
Everytime I Try to Open a Visual Editor from the Terminal as Superuser, I Get This Error: User: ~$ Sudo Gedit Cannot Open Display: Run 'Gedit --Help' to See a...
Everytime I try to open a visual editor from the terminal as superuser, I get this error:
user:~$ sudo gedit
Cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
However, when I open it normally, it works just fine. Any ideas?
Edit: gsuko doesn't change this behaviour either
Edit:
user:~$ sudo kate
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kate: cannot connect to X server
1 Answer
Have you tried gksudo? That's for invoking graphical Applications as superuser. Although i think sudo should work as well in normal Ubuntu.
edit: vim and nano are editors working from inside the terminal. Ubuntu should have those installed by default.
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