text editor?

[frito]

what is the text editor in pardus (kwrite?) and how do i access it through terminal?
typing kwrite file.txt does nothing.

[bubbel]

what is the text editor in pardus (kwrite?) and how do i access it through terminal?
typing kwrite file.txt does nothing.

Hello frito,

kwrite is the text-editor. In Terminal you only type "kwrite" and it will open kwrite.

Or use Alt+F2 and type kwrite

Greetings
bubbel

[frito]

if im in root mode, i cant access it. and if i type
sudo kwrite
i get this

Code:

cannot connect to X server :0

[trixon]

Try this

Code:

xdg-su -u root -c kwrite

[bubbel]

if im in root mode, i cant access it.

I work with Pardus 2008.2 and have no problems to open kwrite in root-modus.

You work with Pardus 2009 I think. Perhaps it can be a Bug in Pardus 2009 

Greetings
bubbel

[caitlyn]

Opening kwrite from a terminal session works fine on my two Pardus 2009 systems.  No problem at all.  It would be helpful to know if anyone having the problem is seeing any error messages. 

FWIW, there are other choices for text editors, particularly if you have the contrib repository enabled.  I have mousepad and gvim both installed on my system.  I've used vi for about forever so gvim is comfortable to me.  Mousepad, from Xfce4, is very lightweight but has less features than kwrite.  Pardus isn't lacking choices 

[bubbel]

FWIW, there are other choices for text editors, particularly if you have the contrib repository enabled. 

Enter the following search word in the package-manager > show new packages:

editor

I think you will find there other. 

Greetings
bubbel

[PhiX]

kwrite is in kdebase package, so you should have it on your system. Kwrite is a graphical editor, so you can't use it in a terminal window.
The default editor to use in a terminal on Pardus is nano.

[caitlyn]

medit is now also in the contrib repository.  If you do any development work it can handle syntax highlighting for a number of languages, including HTML and xml for the web developers out there.  Anyway, it's one of my favorite graphical editors.

[caitlyn]

if im in root mode, i cant access it.

I work with Pardus 2008.2 and have no problems to open kwrite in root-modus.

You work with Pardus 2009 I think. Perhaps it can be a Bug in Pardus 2009 

Greetings
bubbel

Hi, bubbel,

It's not a bug.  It's part of the security built into X.  You can enable local root access to the default display with the command:

xhost +local:root

I put that in my .bash_profile so that it runs every time I login.  That way I never have a problem accessing any X application as root using sudo or su.

HTH,
Cait

[Lisa]

For root mode, I've been using the Alt + F2 method with krunner:
Alt + F2
kdesu kwrite file path