On Thursday 30 July 2015 15:06:56 Leonard T Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...> wrote:
> > On Monday 27 July 2015 00:06:39 Alexandre wrote:
> > > Anyway you should be able to find easily a package with a name similar
> > > to tdesu or tdesudo in Synaptic (my preferred one) or any package
> > > manager
> >
> > app.
> >
> > > Or sometimes the name of the app has changed to trinity-(the name of
> > > the app).
> >
> > No tdesu.  But tdesudo and gksu are both there. So I installed gksu.
> >
> > But it didn't work.  I.e., <gksu kwrite. in the launcher produced a
> > request for the root password - but entering the root password had no
> > effect.
>
> I think you use your own password (and your user has to be in
> /etc/sudoers).

That is supposed to be gksudo - or was last time I was reduced to using it. 
But that would certainly explain it.   Anyhow, it is resolved.  I can use 
tdesu now (root).  tdesudo also exists, of course, but that would mean 
setting up sudo and sudoers.

Thanks for the reply.

Lisi