I installed 12.2 gnome recently with cinnimon and cant add new themes. When I try to move the new theme to the themes folder it keeps saying iam not the owner and dont have permission. Whats the secret to adding new theme?
open terminal and change the ownership of the required files and folders using following command
“sudo chown -R <username> <targetdirectoryName>”<== this will recursively change ownership of all the files and folders inside <targetdirectoryName> to this user<username>
<username> is generallyt your home folder name
thank you so very much just what I needed to know. I wish they would just add a right click open as super user or administrator.
You are absolutely right. Linux is strictly for advanced users. But once you get the hang of things it would be awesome.
Remember if you see an “X” icon on the file or folder you are not its owner . Start running “chown” if you want to own them and as you would already know we should not go around running this command outside our “home” folders
On 12/06/2012 07:16 AM, vazhavandan wrote:
> You are absolutely right. Linux is strictly for advanced users.
i disagree completely. why? i set up a machine for a retired/grandmother
type in Denmark who could only barely use her Windows…
loaded KDE, gave her a several years old booklet (from Red Hat) on Gnome
and told her there would be some differences…
i did not give her the root password and she used the machine for
several years with few questions and no system problems…
simple.
now, your claim is true with just a little rewording:
System administration of Linux is strictly for Linux experienced users
willing to study the details of administration procedures and
techniques–and, almost no experience with non-*nix systems is helpful
in advancing to a level of competent system administration.
ymmv
–
dd
Now that is funny. Loaded KDE and gave her a GNOME booklet
When i started using linux with openSUSE 11 i remember copying content from pen/flash/usb drive or whatever you call it and they had some ownership issues(they had x icons marked all over them in nautilus) and these files were from a windows machine. I had to change ownership of the files after copying them onto my machine. Things have improved by leaps and bounds from around that version though. Linux/openSUSE is much more newbie friendly nowadays .
That would break the security layers that have been carefully built.
Mint does have this - I think it’s a Nautilus extension, you might want to look into it. (I’m referring to Mint 13 - Mint 14 dropped Nautilus.)
I can easily create this menu using a dirty hack in GNOME 3.4.2. It should be possible in Cinnamon too. But as said by the admins i am not THE security expert . Here goes the explanation.
I have two users on my system “mantis” and “test” .i am logging in as mantis and i see x mark on of them. The link “series.txt” is being owned by “test” and i am logged in as mantis.
I am not owner
http://i.imgur.com/LO75Ml.png](Imgur: The magic of the Internet)
Add Alacarte Entry(you can find Alacarte installed on your system)
http://i.imgur.com/Plluhl.png](Imgur: The magic of the Internet)
Locate new openwith menu (right click on file ) created in alacarte
http://i.imgur.com/cbcILl.png](Imgur: The magic of the Internet)
Change owner from test to mantis and close the new nautilus
http://i.imgur.com/BYJnWl.png](Imgur: The magic of the Internet)
mint 14 does have open as administrator and I have used it in 13 also. Its totally secure the owner still has to type in his admin pass word each time . Not having this option in a daily os is ridiculous.
You need to enter passcode every time you need to change permission in above hack too:-)