On 1 Nov 2025 at 0:12, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 00:12:59 -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]>
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> 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
> > <[email protected]>
> > From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
> > <[email protected]>
> >
> >> 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?
msetzerii@setzcodell2:~$ su
Password:
root@setzcodell2:/home/msetzerii#
>
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