OT - Which Linux?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Nick Sabalausky<a at a.a> wrote:
> And if anyone knows how to edit a system-settings text file without
> dropping to the command-line and doing "sudo gedit blahfile &" (and without
> having to start out with "sudo pwd" or "sudo echo" just so the "sudo gedit
> &" does something useful instead of creating a background process that sits
> and waits for input that'll never come from a prompt that I'll never see),
> then *please*, let me know.

That's what gksu - or on KDE, kdesu - is for. ;)