You are probably better off getting familiar with the command line interface, and using a text editor such as nano to edit config files with. rather than using a graphical editor.
Permissions are changed and set in the standard Linux way. If the files are owned by another user, such as root, a method to edit them is to use sudo before the command eg sudo nano weewx.conf On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 05:09:25 UTC+3, Bob Breck wrote: > Doing a clean install on a new Raspberry Pi (v 3.5.0). The installer > doesn't open the config tool, and I can't edit the config file manually; > I'm logged in as user Pi and it tells me I don't have permission to edit > this file. Can someone tell me how to edit this file using the graphical > interface? I've tried numerous ways to change permissions, but am not too > familiar at using the Terminal to do so. > > Can I manually run to config program, permanently change the permissions > for the weewx directory for user Pi? > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
