Take the tour ×  While attempting to run gEdit as root from a
terminal window (was trying to do some tweaking on my HOSTS and
FSTAB files), I get a message saying "No DBus connection
available" and get booted back to the prompt.  However, I can
run Nautilus from the prompt like that (still get the error, but
it runs all the same), and use WINE and NOTEPAD, and was able to
make my changes.  I thought maybe DBUS was missing, but APT says
it's installed and gEdit runs fine when not elevated. Granted, I
don't have to elevate often, but on the off-chance I do, (like
adding or changing SMB/CIFS mountpoints in FSTAB), I would like
to use gEdit, not NOTEPAD from WINE, and not in a terminal
window with VI (well VIM).  Ideas? Solutions?  share|improve
this question How are you launching gedit? –  Uri Herrera Aug 4
'12 at 3:16 Isn't it not advisable to run apps like that with
sudo instead of gksu. I forgot the reason why it's not advised.
–  Marky Mar 5 at 15:51 add comment  3 Answers  I had a similar
problem on Fedora