Thanks for the (attempted) help. su -c - root mousepad returned the same error (Mousepad-CRITICAL... Failed to initialize xfconf: The connection is closed) su -c - root xterm and then mousepad (in that xterm) returned the same error again.
I noticed on my Beowulf system I get a similar "error" except it says dconf-WARNING ... failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed However, mousepad actually opens there, I guess because it is a warning instead of a critical error in Beowulf? I'm not terribly concerned about (not) being able to run GUI programs as root, it just seemed odd to me that pkexec would require a different user's password, especially when specifying --user root. Steve Litt wrote: > Try this: > su -c - root mousepad > > Remember to put the dash between -c and root. > > If you get the same results, perform the following: > > su -c - root xterm > > Now, within that xterm, run the mousepad command and see what goes > wrong. It's probably a wrong directory, or perhaps some missing > environment variable, either of which can be cured by a shellscript. > Thank you for the help also. sudoedit requires user "a" to be in sudo group, which I'd prefer not to do. A non-gui text editor invoked with su -c will work for now. Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > You could consider running sudoedit instead. That will allow you to > edit a file as root (or any other designated account) while still > running the editor itself under the unprivileged account. One should > not run graphical programs as root, if it can be avoided. > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
