Run Geany as root

Question

I have ubuntu 16.04 and I installed Geany using Ubuntu Software Centre. I need to edit some php and js files which happen to be in root directories. So when I try to save the changes in Geany, it generates following error:

Error opening file '/var/www/html/project1/team/team.php': Permission denied

The file on disk may now be truncated!

How can I make Geany to edit and save these files?

Answer 1

try

gksudo geany

Use gksudo with graphical apps written in GTK+ instead of sudo

Answer 2

sudo -Eb geany

worked for me on Debian 10 with xrdp. I executed the command on xrdp desktop Terminal Emulator.

-E: preserve user environment when running command
-b: run command in the background

Note that without -b option the control will not return to terminal until geany is closed.

Not an expert on this, was just trying to see sudo's options and this did the trick!