02-24-2018, 07:13 PM
(02-13-2018, 04:44 PM)trinidad link Wrote: "Here's the final kicker: apparently in Ubuntu, there is no (practical... did find admin:/// or whatever command for sh) way to access your own root directory."
As far as Ubuntu "sudo su" will give you a root shell. You can also install the Debian administrative file access option package to nautilus. It's in synaptic. "gksudo" is deprecated for newer versions so don't bother with it. Compiz and the gnome tweak tool give you just about any option you desire with the unity DE. It's definitely not as much of a natural fit to Windows converts as XFCE is, but it fits to many powerful gnome tools for developers.
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Welcome to LL.
TC
Yeah most of that was greek to me. I do too "sudo su", how about you? I am learning by mucking around the config files, and messin with the terminal. When I couldn't access root, through my file browser... and lost my whisker menu... and found out the side panel was permanently locked in place... no way. I do like the windows-like interface... A LOT. But doing stuf (a lot of apt-getting) in terminal reminds me of the power of DOS, which is what I learned on. Am hoping that "shell scripts" are the linux way of saying "batch files" because if so, then I will finally have control over how my software operates!