Hello --
I was using geany on a machine with X windows only. In order to edit files in the /var/ directory all I had to do was call geany from command line as root or sudo geany as me. Recently I reformatted to a newer version of Linux, this time using gnome, and now whenever I try to run geany as root, I get an error message telling me there is no configuration file. I tried moving the file from my home to /usr/share/geany -- no luck. Would someone please tell me what I am missing?
TIA
DougE
On Mon, 25 May 2009 20:05:28 -0400 (EDT) wdepli@mikrotec.com wrote:
Hello --
I was using geany on a machine with X windows only. In order to edit files in the /var/ directory all I had to do was call geany from command line as root or sudo geany as me. Recently I reformatted to a newer version of Linux, this time using gnome, and now whenever I try to run geany as root, I get an error message telling me there is no configuration file. I tried moving the file from my home to /usr/share/geany -- no luck. Would someone please tell me what I am missing?
Are you working on a sudo-only system like Ubuntu which doesn't have any loginable real root account?
Thanks, Frank
Hi,
On Tue, 26 May 2009 08:20:51 -0400 Doug Epling wdepli@mikrotec.com wrote:
I did not know that about Ubuntu -- ha, ha -- I use Fedora.
It occurred to me just after my post to look at the hidden files in my /root directory. Sure enough there was no .config directory. I created that and when I restarted Geany as root, that directory was located and the geany.config file was created.
Problem solved.
I think also on svn with r3777.
Cheers, Frank
On Tue, 26 May 2009 14:25:34 +0200, Frank wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 26 May 2009 08:20:51 -0400 Doug Epling wdepli@mikrotec.com wrote:
I did not know that about Ubuntu -- ha, ha -- I use Fedora.
It occurred to me just after my post to look at the hidden files in my /root directory. Sure enough there was no .config directory. I created that and when I restarted Geany as root, that directory was located and the geany.config file was created.
Problem solved.
I think also on svn with r3777.
Yes, this is exactly the fix. However, I really recommend to not use Geany as root.
Regards, Enrico