On 31 Oct 2025 at 21:13, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:13:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Issue with Fedora 43 difference with gedit and
geany with root
user.
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From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
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> 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]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date sent: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:20:33 -0000
> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
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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?
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.
>
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