On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 20:45, Budi <budikus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How do we launch geany as root with the same geany setting of non-root / > normal > user geany > > tried to do such and kept on being end up with another 'strange' geany > > How actually correct way to launch the same geany, but now it's as root
First of all note it is discouraged to run Geany as root, it is an application that runs arbitrary commands and accesses files and as such is a significant risk running it as root, and every file you touch will end up owned by root, which is often an issue after you exit root. That includes any config, or project files you use from root, so sharing them with a non-root Geany is not possible. Also Geany will refuse to open a socket of another user, so root can't use Geany where the socket would be in the same place as an existing Geany. Since you have provided no information how you run Geany as root nor described what "strange" means and we can't see your system, it is not possible to help more. In general it is better to not use Geany or any other complex IDE to edit files as root, use a simple editor or if it is a complex file and you really want to use Geany, open the file in a user Geany, save it elsewhere (eg /tmp) and then copy it as root. Cheers Lex > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
