Hi, And thanks for the tip about the wrong home folder in my last thread. I'm now attempting to fix some things related to that but am running into problems again. I'm trying to move or copy my eSpeak installation from the home folder to usr/bin.
It seems my ordinary user account has no rights to do that. So my question is, how do I perform some Gnome commands as the super user such as when copying or editing files? I cannot see a run as command or something similar. I read that there are some sudo frontends such as gksu but have failed to find them. Amazingly the book Beginning Ubuntu Linux, although it gives plenty of examples of using sudo itself, does not cover its graphical equivalent as far as I can tell. SO what's the Gnome equivalent of sudo used in Gnome and how do I use it? All of my sighted LInux friends are using KDE, and they bash Gnome big time wishing that QT4 would catch on. They also seem to know very little about Gnome itself, which is a pitty. Well I'd use KDE myself, if I could. Still waiting for that to happen. I've tried copying via the command-line but managed to mess up something, I think. I ran the following:; /usr/bin$ sudo cp -r ~vtatila/* Password: cp: target `/home/vtatila/speak' is not a directory Mind you my command-line background is in DOs and command-line ports of Windows apps. So in that context it would copy all the files specified by the wildcard to the current folder . But this is Unix. And I realized too late that it Expands wildcards into a flat list of arguments (which always makes me want to draw analogies to passing arrays in Perl subs). The copy syntax is: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY So I truely hope it interpreted all the matching files but one as the source and tried to use the last one, as the target folder. SO no real harm done. But not confirming by default, having no undo like the Bin in Windows and not being verbose when you work interactively in the shell is getting on my nerves. I was afraid I did something fatal so obviously root powers aren't really good for me at this point, <smile>. At times I can identify very strongly with the Unix haters handbook. Needless to say I'd rather do this stuff via the GUI to play it safe. SO back to my question again, how do I run super-user stuff in Gnome without having to give my ordinary user account too many rights? Also, on a side note, is there an invert selection command in Gnome? It would rock if I need to select all but very few files. Currently my Windows magnifier only tracks the VmWare mouse so it makes many keybord operations in Gnome very difficult to follow because it means manual tracking with the magnified mouse. BTW: Are threads like this OT? I do realize very little about this is truely specific to Linux accessibility. If this is a problem, I'm perfectly willing to take those of my questions, which have no direct bearing on accessibility, to some other newbie-friendly list, too. I can also be less verbose, although generally speaking I liek to compose long mails on most lists, as you might have noticed. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
