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[Mobius 1]

i usually just sudo nautilus in the command line and do it that way under normal privileges. or in my case at the moment "sudo thunar"

try "sudo nautilus" without the exclamation marks in command line

 

[BillytheImpaler]

by default the root account is disabled and password-less. Did you enable it?

gksudo nautilus
will open up nautilus with root privileges

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
will open the file you want to edit with a GUI text editor.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

On the top toolbar: System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications

VLC isn't in just one place. The actual binary is in /usr/bin, the libraries are in /usr/lib, and a lot of other stuff is in /usr/share

Not that it would have helped you solve this problem, but to find the location of a program type
which programname

Running which vlc now tells me
/usr/bin/vlc

 

[Minto]

I use totem, vlc seem horrifically unstable on gutsy. - don't forget to get the restricted extras packages