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dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,108

~/wallpapers/shared Permissions Error

Hi, I'm the only user on this machine, so I wanted to change the permissions of ~/wallpapers/shared so I didn't have to go root to add wallpapers.

So I chmod 666 ~/wallpapers/shared

Now I'm getting permissions issues, and it seems I may should have chown'd it.

What I want to do is return ~/wallpapers/shared to default permissions. But I'm not sure what they would be. I'm not so bothered about having to be root, I just want nitrogen to stop getting permission issues.

I realise that ~/wallpapers/shared is a symlink to usr/images or whatever, so not sure what that has to do with it.

Really easy stuff, I just can't get my head round it. Can someone give me the correct method?

Thanks.

junkie

#! Junkie

Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 370

Re: ~/wallpapers/shared Permissions Error

Can't you just add wallpapers to the wallpapers directory (parent of shared)? Nitrogen should pick it up I remember.
To create a new symlink

ln -s /usr/shared/path/to/backgrounds /home/user/images/wallpapers/system_wallpapers

Also, good to use full paths...

teh chown method (but I don't think you need to do any of this for your purpose)

chown user:group /path/to/something

Last edited by junkie (2012-12-08 20:37:53)

dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,108

Re: ~/wallpapers/shared Permissions Error

Cheers bud.

junkie

#! Junkie

Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 370

Re: ~/wallpapers/shared Permissions Error

We're lucky for such choices. Touched Win7 today for the first time. My girlfriend couldn't figure out how to change her wallpaper; then I couldn't figure it out. Well apparently win 7 starter edition doesn't have that "feature". Yeah, more like a dirty registry hack, blocking any wallpaper that doesn't match the default wim7 logos hash... wtf

lwfitz

#! Die Hard

From: Monrovia, CA

Registered: 2012-01-19

Posts: 886

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Re: ~/wallpapers/shared Permissions Error

We're lucky for such choices. Touched Win7 today for the first time. My girlfriend couldn't figure out how to change her wallpaper; then I couldn't figure it out. Well apparently win 7 starter edition doesn't have that "feature". Yeah, more like a dirty registry hack, blocking any wallpaper that doesn't match the default wim7 logos hash... wtf

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