Can't open grub.conf/lilo.conf with kate being root
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This is because you're logged into your desktop environment as another user. I don't know of a good solution other than logging out and logging back in as root if you want to use kate. Otherwise nano might be more intuitive if you don't like vim or emacs.
konsole in kde3 did support this, konsole in kde4 doesn't. Another solution to all all the already mentioned ones would be to run it from another terminal like xterm for example (instead of konsole)
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