Open editor as root errors.

I am trying to open the text editor as root and get these errors. What am I doing wrong please ?

Code:

$ sudo gedit
[sudo] password for david:         

** (gedit:9395): WARNING **: 19:28:46.302: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (gedit:9395): WARNING **: 19:28:46.302: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

** (gedit:9395): WARNING **: 19:29:42.066: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported

** (gedit:9395): WARNING **: 19:29:42.066: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported



Harmless warnings. Essentially, when operating as Normal User, you are operating in your normal user environment. But when you log in as Root, you are operating from the Root environment instead of the Home environment.
Your settings are in Home.
Some are able to bypass this by doing

Code:

sudo su

to elevate to root before opening gedit. I do this, as well, instead of using pkexec.
Alternatively, you can use nano for root terminal text editing. Or, you can ignore the warnings.