can you post a screen-shot of what you see when you are on vnc? or just describe it?

The screenie

This is what I used to install it.

apt-get -y install ubuntu-desktop tightvncserver xfce4 xfce4-goodies

okay, you are using XFCE, which is a pretty good light-weight Desktop Environment.

If you want to browse root files, then open a terminal (within VNC ) and type:

sudo thunar

which should open a File Browser as root, and you can then edit whatever files you want.
If you know exactly where you want to go, you can add that to the command like this:

sudo thunar /etc/apache2

and that will open a file browser at /etc/apache2 directory

Thanks so much! Just a couple of questions.

Is there a way of making that permanent?

Also can I access this gui through tightvnc?

“Is there a way of making that permanent?”

can you describe more what you mean by that?

“Also can I access this gui through tightvnc?”

should work. You might want to tunnel through SSH if that has the option..its been a while since I used tightvnc.

I mean is there a way of making it so i can edit files all the time without that command?

I do not really use XFCE, or Thunar. Someone else will have to answer that.

What is your home-computer OS?

I ask because you could just use an application to access your files and folders directly rather than using VNC.
That way you could SFTP in as root, and then bookmark that, and just click to open
You can also SFTP as your regular user, bookmark that and open that when you need to access non-root files.

Lots of SFTP applications available…

Using VNC seems like a long way around.