>non-GUI editor for editing config files.

All true IF you know exactly what you want. But synaptics ability to search is worth a lot.

And I use nano, a lot. sudo nano runs anywhere. As pointed out previously this is a rootless install, and I am in the sudo group. But lightdm nor tdm-trinity know that so I can't use sudo

then. So something is fubar, but what?

Thanks Mike, Gene