[Fedora 16] If Anyone Knows A lot About Gimp, I Have A Question

[TheGnome]

Hi... I Want To Use Gimp As Root. How Do I Do It.

[DBelton]

open a terminal window

su -
(root password)

gimp

You won't have your settings or plugins, etc... that you created for your normal user unless you copy your ~/.gimp-2.7 folder over to /root/.gimp-2.7

The folder can be ~/.gimp-2.6 ~/.gimp-2.7 or ~/.gimp-2.8 depending upon the version of gimp you have installed.

Edit:

There really is no reason you need to run gimp as root, though. It can be dangerous running applications as root when you don't need to.

[Gareth Jones]

Originally Posted by TheGnome

Hi... I Want To Use Gimp As Root. How Do I Do It.

Don't.

Sorry, but there is a reason Linux has non-privileged users for non-administrative purposes, and graphics editing can't really be described as administrative. Heed DBelton's EDIT.

You should copy the file you want to edit into your home directory, edit it there, then copy it back over the original file as root if necessary.