Thank you for the bug report. gksu is supposed to work from "run command" not from the terminal. also, sudo gedit is not supposed to run that way, launching gui's as sudo should be as gksu <application" in run command. I hope this clears things up. Thanks.
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- neither sudo gedit, nor gksudo gedit work https://launchpad.net/bugs/60317 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs