concepts wrote: > The reason I got myself into the mess is quite simple! I wanted to place some > scripts-fu in the proper folder for GIMP. As a user, I JUST COULDN'T !!! And > that pissed me off to no end... Soooooooooooooooooooooooo, I gave root > priviliges to that user for the /usr folder ONLY. Then the problems started. > And I'm most probably going to have to re-install Xubuntu (old machine) > because there is now only 2,4Gb left on the hard-drive! Poof! All the free > space has disappeared in bitland! > As I've said earlier, if you need a tester, I'm available. I get these weird > ideas and needs sometimes... > > André. I guess the best thing I can say is that you will essentially never have to place any files anywhere outside /home/you unless you know what you are doing, and know just why you are doing it. In any case where you do need to (and if it is config stuff, double check, you probably do not), use sudo to temporarily make yourself root-like. I think you probably know now, but the correct place for scripts in GIMP seems to be /home/$USER/.gimp-2.6/scripts/ .
No irreparable damage done, and you will probably think twice about users and permissions when things don't work. Maybe a good way to think of it is, don't change files or folders to match your user when working outside your home folder, change your identity/permissions with sudo or su instead. You can go to Applications>Accessories>Disk Space Analyzer and try and see where your space went. If that program is not installed you can install it, it is called baobab, very nice little GUI disk space thing. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
