[KLUG Members] Re: gnome and kde -- run gmenu as root

Rusty Yonkers members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 23 May 2002 20:50:19 -0700 (PDT)


Well paint me purple and call me stupid... I guess I
had a major brain fart!!  I should have guessed that I
needed to be root to do that...  Oh well learn
something new every day... escpecially on Linux.  So
much to learn.  Also did not know about this
particular way of running su.  Thanks for the tip!

--- "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:38, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> > I have the Ximian flavor of Gnome running at home.
> 
> > Some things I like about it.  I have had trouble
> > adding menu items to it though.  Don't know if I
> am
> > just doing something stupid or just not
> understanding
> > it right.
> 
> I hope you understand only root can add to the
> system-wide menus (i.e.
> most of them).  You'll need to either login as root
> or run "su - -c
> gmenu" to edit them.
> 
> -- Bryan
> 
> -- 
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> 1/100th the
> Constitutional worry, if it dictated its policy to
> Microsoft as
> THE MAJOR CUSTOMER it is, and not THE REGULATOR it
> fails to be.
>
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