Quote Originally Posted by wishkah
Basically im trying to ask, is there a way to give yourself full root access using the GUI without using the shell?
Or, if there isnt a way, how do i open source.lst in a text editor from the shell once im logged in as root?

I did try typing "nano /etc/apt/sources.lst" but it doesnt recognize the command.
Is there a shell command for kedit? or any other text editor?
As I know 'nano' isn't isntalled in knoppix. You can type another gui editor instead of nano in shell with root privileges, or a full shell editor as "vi /etc/apt/sources.lst", but this is very tricky for newbies.
I'm not sure and maybe I'm sayng a stupid thing, but while knoppix is based on debian, seems to me that last debian releases (and so last knoppix releases) don't make possible to acess at gui environment with root account.