I've been using LMDE for a while now but haven't changed mt setup much recently.
I decided to change a theme the other day and was refused permission to extract the file to the directory. I remembered having to open files with root authority (or whatever) before so back tracked but can't find any setting to do this. Am I being thick here, or have things changed and I'm just not aware of them. I have a bad cold at the moment, so that's a good excuse for my brain not working but it strikes me that this has got to be something simple, but I just can't see it.
Any suggestions please!
Andrew
Permissions Issue
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Permissions Issue
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Re: Permissions Issue
[moved here]
i guess you are referring to the handy "open as administrator" right-click context-menu in nautilus? yeahh that one is gone the gnome masters decided that was too dangerous for a regular user to have around, so they removed it in this new nautilus.
if you need root permissions (like in this situation to move themes to share/themes) you now have to start nautilus as gksu nautilus and work as root in there (unsafe but has to be for now)
i guess you are referring to the handy "open as administrator" right-click context-menu in nautilus? yeahh that one is gone the gnome masters decided that was too dangerous for a regular user to have around, so they removed it in this new nautilus.
if you need root permissions (like in this situation to move themes to share/themes) you now have to start nautilus as gksu nautilus and work as root in there (unsafe but has to be for now)
Re: Permissions Issue
Thanks as ever for the speedy and accurate response. I guess now I know I will be as dangerous as I was before!! ahhhhhhhhzerozero wrote:[moved here]
i guess you are referring to the handy "open as administrator" right-click context-menu in nautilus? yeahh that one is gone the gnome masters decided that was too dangerous for a regular user to have around, so they removed it in this new nautilus.
if you need root permissions (like in this situation to move themes to share/themes) you now have to start nautilus as gksu nautilus and work as root in there (unsafe but has to be for now)
Andrew
Re: Permissions Issue
And we'll still be "here" to help protect you from yourself.abtygwyn wrote:...I guess now I know I will be as dangerous as I was before!! ahhhhhhhh