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In article <5rof8sF15lcgcU2@mid.individual.net>,
Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Meat Plow wrote:
> Do I need to
> >> start my file manager as root? I seem to remember other distros having a
> >> regular file manager and then one with root privileges. I wonder if that
> >> could be the difference.
> >>
> when you find it (see above) use sudo gedit xorg.conf in a terminal to
> launch the editor in root mode.
> >
Interesting thing is when I sudo gedit xorg.conf it opens it up and is
blank! If I just start gedit (sudo gedit) then go to file>open>xorg.conf
it opens as expected with all of the text. Strange.
Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Meat Plow wrote:
> Do I need to
> >> start my file manager as root? I seem to remember other distros having a
> >> regular file manager and then one with root privileges. I wonder if that
> >> could be the difference.
> >>
> when you find it (see above) use sudo gedit xorg.conf in a terminal to
> launch the editor in root mode.
> >
Interesting thing is when I sudo gedit xorg.conf it opens it up and is
blank! If I just start gedit (sudo gedit) then go to file>open>xorg.conf
it opens as expected with all of the text. Strange.