Awesome! Thanks everyone for your help. And I'm sorry I didn't give more information...

I'm running Fedora 30, and I don't have a root password, seems that my password isn't even required when installing apps and what not (Thought it was supposed to be created upon install did they do away with THAT too? LoL!) I had no idea about the "X vs Wayland" issue, so I'm eager to try that and see if it works. I'll report back here once I get out of work (Amazon....uggh! this "Prime Day" is a KILLER! Hahahaha!) and see if that solves my woes!)



Thanks!



EGO II


On 7/13/19 3:20 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 7/12/19 6:57 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
On 19-07-12 15:47:58, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in
"sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root
powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This
seems to have been removed / stopped / taken away? So how do I gain
the ability to work on files / folders or directories now? Can
anyone point me in the right direction here?

Log out and log back in with X instead of Wayland.

This is the correct answer.  Choose the "Gnome on Xorg" session at the login screen after you click on your user name.  Wayland does not support applications running as root.  I did see that soon X applications will be able to run as root under Wayland.
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