[Solved] this is a little funny, sudo nautilus in kubuntu

[awblanton]

So I was trying to edit some code at root, to do so I ran sudo nautilus and... well my desktop is a nice compo of gnome and kde... how can I undo this? I have tried to restart with no luck.

[awblanton]

Re: this is a little funny

I mean, the funny thing is that I can see the wallpaper of my gnome desktop and now all of the desktop files are showing...

[GreyGeek]

Re: this is a little funny

So I was trying to edit some code at root, to do so I ran sudo nautilus and... well my desktop is a nice compo of gnome and kde... how can I undo this? I have tried to restart with no luck.

An obvious question, but .... have you tried undoing your "code edits" and rebooting?

[integr8e]

Re: this is a little funny

So I was trying to edit some code at root, to do so I ran sudo nautilus and... well my desktop is a nice compo of gnome and kde... how can I undo this? I have tried to restart with no luck.

An obvious question, but .... have you tried undoing your "code edits" and rebooting?

That's pretty funny!

If you can't undo what you edited, you may be able to reinstall the problematic applications -- what exactly did you change?

[awblanton]

Re: this is a little funny

well it did not happen when I changed the code but rather right when I started up nautilus. the only thing that I was editing was the apache html file so I could see a different page on my server. Right when nautilus started, the background went a little orange... but I have tried to reboot and that has not helped. How do I make sure nautilus is not still running?

[GreyGeek]

Re: this is a little funny

GUI: System Monitor, right mouse on appropriate line, select terminate or kill
CLI: ps aux | less (as root, followed by "sudo kill -9 pid" of offending app)

[vinnywright]

Re: this is a little funny

So I was trying to edit some code at root, to do so I ran sudo nautilus and... well my desktop is a nice compo of gnome and kde... how can I undo this? I have tried to restart with no luck.

I have never had this happen in KDE or Gnome (but I'v never run sudo nautilus)

BUT in xfce or fluxbox if I open nautilus even withought sudo this dose happen......at least untill a reboot.

runing a GUI app as in sudo nautilus or sudo dolphin can and dose mess up the file permitions in your /home DIR. this may have happend hear but usualey the efect is you cant log in untill you delete the ~/.kde folder and let it get regenerated on a reboot.

in the future if you nead to run a gui as root use gksudo nautilus or kdesudo dolphin.........IE:gksudo for gnome apps and kdesudo for KDE apps.

and you mite want to go ahead and remove or rename the folowing files.

/home/you/.kde --- the hole folder (it's hiden by the . )

/home/you/.Xauthority ----- a hiden file

/home/you/.ICEauthority ----a hiden file

start with the first and work down one at a time with a reboot after each removall adding the next one if no joy.

so first remove the ~/.kde then reboot if no luck remove ~/.kde and ~/.Xauthority then reboot etc, etc, etc,

VINNY

[awblanton]

Re: this is a little funny

Great! you guys rock, I opened systems monitor and nautilus was still running, so I did a kill process and that did the trick. And in the future I will run with gksudo. I'm still learning so I make some mistakes but I figure, thats the best way to learn!