On 10/31/25 6:56 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 1 Nov 2025 at 1:20, Joe Average wrote:
Subject: Re: Issue with Fedora 43 difference with gedit and
geany with root
user.
From: "Joe Average" <[email protected]>
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Date sent: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:20:33 -0000
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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?
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