On 11/1/25 12:00 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 31 Oct 2025 at 22:38, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:38:41 -0700
Subject: Re: Issue with Fedora 43 difference with gedit and
geany with root
user.
To: Community support for Fedora users
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From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
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On 10/31/25 10:23 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 31 Oct 2025 at 21:13, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/31/25 6:56 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 1 Nov 2025 at 1:20, Joe Average wrote:
Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
Have generally used geany for editing lots of files with both regular
user and root user, but after upgrading a test machine it no longer
worked.
Running as regular user was fine, but runnings as root, would fail,
and would then mess up with regular user since it would create a
file .config/geany that was owned by root? Had to delete that file to
fix issue.
just checked:
become root: sudo -s
geany 1.file 2.file
create a directory /root/.config/geany (if not exists), what is owned by root
users config's regarding geany isn't touched here
geany is here installed via dnf not flatpak
I'm root as su, and already have the .config/geany directory with
files. Get this.
You should be using "sudo". You at least need to use the "-l" option
for "su" if you're going to do that, so that you get a proper login
shell and don't drag in the user environment.
But still the more important question is why are you running "geany" as
root in the first place?
What should one use? Use geany for everything as a regular user,
so is very familiar.
nano isn't bad, but doesn't have a lot of what geany adds.
Definitely don't want to have to deal with vi or vim.
Want to just edit text files. Has worked fine with many version of
Fedora.
Had earlier user Redhat 9, Then Fedora core 1 thru Fedara 42.
don't recall went started using geany, but has been some time.
If there is something better.
I've never used geany, but the dnf info said it is an IDE, a code
editor. You mentioned gedit and that made more sense, although I think
that's deprecated now for the new gnome-text-editor. Either of those
would seem to make more sense for your use.
gedit seems to do the same.
# gedit
How exactly are you getting to root? Did you see the other emails about
that?
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