gedit in xfce with root

[exiledangel420]

What I want to use it for originally to edit and create files through the root I prefer it over nano

But this is what happen when I try to launch it in such a way

root@75 john]# gedit

(gedit:27633): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

** (gedit:27840): WARNING **: Could not connect to session bus

Is their a specified way I have to install it for xfce, or is it even possible without gnome?
I installed it through the root with yum, no errors during the install. And it runs fine with regular, and administrative privileges just doesn't work in root.

su
yum install gedit

Do I have specify it's privileges upon the install and how do I do so?

[stevea]

Looks like an X authentication issue. Try the
xhost +
command before you 'su' to root.

Apparently "su -" will share the Xauthentiation and a plain "su" won't.

[secipolla]

Or use
$ beesu gedit

[exiledangel420]

I tried that I get

access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

Then I get the same thing as above.

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Okay will try beesu

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don't have beesu I don't think or atleast it's showing command not found

[john@75 ~]$ beesu gedit
bash: beesu: command not found

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I'm using fedora 17 the xfce 32 bit spin

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Okay installed it I will try again

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yep that launch it. thanks for the help

[jpollard]

xhosts + doesn't do much except for TCP connections. By default, such connections are disabled. What is used instead are domain sockets (name is in /tmp/.X11-unix/<name> where <name> is usually X0 or X1).

The problem is that there is no default DISPLAY environment variable, and if it exists, it must be the right one.

beesu passes the users DISPLAY environment variable to the root login and I believe it also passes the users XAUTHORITY environment variable as well.

xhosts + should never be used.

[exiledangel420]

Okay gotha, and thanks for explaining what it does. so beesu is basically a script that passes both variables to the root logon.
And xhost + has nothing to do with the passing variables to root logon.

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How do I create a display default display enviroment variable for the root and the xauthority variable? so I don't need to use beesu or is that even possible?

[leadgolem]

su -
gedit

I don't claim to understand why, but this works on my gnome system. Make sure you use the "-" after the su.