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#1 2014-07-02 06:54:00

badministrator
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Registered: 2014-05-27
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Previews in ranger as root.

I have previewing configured in ranger but it does not work when I run ranger as root. ie "sudo ranger"

My scope.sh is the default example one and by rc.conf says

 set preview_images true

How do I configure it so that I have previews in ranger even when I run as root?

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#2 2014-07-02 07:01:21

jasonwryan
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Re: Previews in ranger as root.

Link your user's ranger.rc to root's?


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#3 2018-08-15 16:04:07

saberfangtiger
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Re: Previews in ranger as root.

Previews are forced disabled in code for root in file: ranger/core/main.py

if fm.username == 'root':
            fm.settings.preview_files = False
            fm.settings.use_preview_script = False
            fm.log.appendleft("Running as root, disabling the file previews.")

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#4 2018-08-15 17:27:16

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Re: Previews in ranger as root.

Thanks for sharing. I have no idea if this was the case in 2014, but if it was, I'd hope that OP figured it out by now.

Mod note: Closing this old thread.


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