[Geany] run/edit with geany as root

Frank Lanitz frank at xxxxx
Tue May 26 06:42:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, 25 May 2009 20:05:28 -0400 (EDT)
<wdepli at 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
-- 
http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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