Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 07/26/2017 09:36 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Take it up with the so-called steering committees. There are a bunch of (IMHO) idiotic decisions made to Linux in the last few years--either just really bad choices (journald, etc.) or the selection of mechanisms that are nowhere near baked enough for g

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 07/25/2017 07:30 PM, Emmett Culley wrote: > On 07/24/2017 06:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/25/2017 08:52 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: >>> On 07/24/2017 03:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/25/2017 05:01 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: > Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-25 Thread Emmett Culley
On 07/24/2017 06:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/25/2017 08:52 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: >> On 07/24/2017 03:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 07/25/2017 05:01 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers that I manage? For the

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2017 08:52 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: > On 07/24/2017 03:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/25/2017 05:01 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: >>> Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers >>> that I manage? >>> >>> For the first time since Fedora first became available I

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Emmett Culley
On 07/24/2017 04:25 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Emmett Culley wrote: > >> Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers >> that I manage? >> >> For the first time since Fedora first became available I am truly sorry I >> updated to the current release. Even the switch to KD

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Emmett Culley wrote: > Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers > that I manage? > > For the first time since Fedora first became available I am truly sorry I > updated to the current release. Even the switch to KDE4 was not such a > problem. At least a few devel

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 25 July 2017 at 00:05, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/25/2017 05:01 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: >> Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers >> that I manage? >> >> For the first time since Fedora first became available I am truly sorry I >> updated to the current relea

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2017 05:01 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: > Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers that > I manage? > > For the first time since Fedora first became available I am truly sorry I > updated to the current release. Even the switch to KDE4 was not such a > prob

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/25/2017 05:53 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Just run Xorg instead of wayland and you'll be back to normal. In the case of kwrite, no you won't. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:01:34 -0700 Emmett Culley wrote: > I haven't heard anything about this, why is it such a secret? How can I fix > this as I am effectively crippled. I use nano for most work on remote > servers, But fro all of the server that have a GUI installed we use (used) > kwrite.

WTF kwrite cannot be run as root

2017-07-24 Thread Emmett Culley
Who decided that I should not be able to use a GUI editor on the servers that I manage? For the first time since Fedora first became available I am truly sorry I updated to the current release. Even the switch to KDE4 was not such a problem. At least a few developers didn't decide for me how