This is an access permission issue that's been troubling me for some time.

I log into the GUI (GNOME) as an ordinary user. I start KWrite to edit my program files, which are supposed to be saved in directories other than the home directory of the user.

So I have to su into root before launching KWrite.

There must be some way to get around this, right? Please offer me a clue :-)

if running KWrite is a prob

at a cli type

chown username:usergroup name $pathto/KWrite
chmod u+x $pathto/KWrite

then all should be done

Else if your trying to edit stuff in places like "/etc" etc then you'll have to either run as root, or make your box insecure by doing the above on the files you want to edit. Or on the directories you want to write to.

If you could provide more info as to which files your editing that would be of help

or you could chmod u+s $pathto/KWrite and set it suid so it runs as suid root, meaning you can edit stuff without su'ing first