On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:08:45 -0500, Marvin Dickens <mpdickens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello list, > > Perhaps the following fits into this thread. > I am new to fedora and gnome, but not to linux. > Recently, after installing fedora core 3 with > gnome, I was disturbed that nautilus could not > be called as su from the desktop. To make a long > story short, I decided that Nautilus, like the > konquerer (the file/internet browser) > in kde must be callable for a su session from > any mortal users desktop. Not wanting to reinvent > the wheel, I did a quick google, I found this: > > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/matt_hansen/nautilus/ > > It worked for me. You are able to use gedit as well as any other > functions that nautilus provides mortal users and you have all the power > of su. > > Please note that I did not totally follow the instructions as described > in the article: I modified it to suite my individual needs. > > Best > > Marvin Dickens > > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:46 -0500, J. Michael Morse wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:16:45 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis > > <peterlesterhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > I feel like moving one step forward and three steps backward. > > > How should I edit yum.conf? When I open yum.conf in gedit and make a few > > > changes I cann't save the file bacause of an error message. > > > Should I be logged in as root in gedit? How does one become root in gedit? > > > Thanks, Peter Lesterhuis. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Don't know about your gedit woes. But how about vi? # vi /etc/yum.conf <Escape i> # to insert Esc shift : # takes you to the colon prompt :wq # will write and quit; q by itself quits without writing or committing changes Marc
