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unprogram

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

I ran the chmod commands someone gave me previously, and now my terminal emulator and other programs remember what settings I have changed previously, but for some reason pcmanfm won't. I don't know why since I can edit ~/.config/pcmanfm/main  fine.

Also I can hardly find any documentation on pcmanfm anywhere through google, so it is hard to find out what might be the problem

Any ideas?

unprogram

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Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 17

Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

ok, I managed to fix it, with chmod 666 ~/.config/pcmanfm/main

Still don't understand chmod fully, (as in how to take ownership of a file and give myself only r/w access, but getting there)

sniffles

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 275

Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

`man chmod` and all your problems will go away?

unprogram

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

easy when you know how, man pages are difficult to understand, I prefer a step by step explanation!

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

easy when you know how, man pages are difficult to understand, I prefer a step by step explanation!

You're going to have it a bit hard with this approach in this community...

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions

Last edited by bender02 (2008-06-13 21:05:00)

unprogram

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

not at all , if the community was so smart then I wouldn't have to answer my own questions continually!

This may sound arrogant but the reason I post an answer even when it is my own question is in the hope that someone in the future may find it useful when they are searching through google. The last two replies to my questions are hardly useful, anyone can cut and paste their google search into a forum message board thinking that they are 'superior'

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

That's not how I meant it. Posting the 'step-by-step' solution to your problem is exactly what you should have done. Perfect!

I guess I misunderstood the rest. To me, it looked like:
you saying that you don't understand chmod and permissions; sniffles saying that you could read the manpage to learn about that; you saying that's difficult and that you prefer step-by-step explanations (from someone on the forums). Now that's the attitude I don't like.

I don't feel superior when I post a link anyone can get as a first hit on a google search. I feel disappointed that someone is lazy/unable to do that search him/herself and posts a question.

So I apologize, I didn't understand (and still don't understand) what were you trying to say.
(Edit: typo)

Last edited by bender02 (2008-06-13 23:51:07)

sniffles

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 275

Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

`man pages` are probably *The* source of documentation as far as the usage of various Linux/UNIX utilities is concerned. Alas, read them, don't read them -- I don't *really* care.

anyone can cut and paste their google search into a forum message board thinking that they are 'superior'

If that google-ing followed by copy/pasting solves the problem then the original poster should be ashamed for not google-ing himself in the first place.

unprogram

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

I'm sorry if I sounded offensive there, i didn't mean to! Thanks for the help bith of you

unprogram

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Registered: 2008-05-27

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Re: Pcmanfm still won't remember my preferences :(

The point I was making was that I googled chmod, and looked at the man page( they are hard to understand, I don't care what anyone says), I still didn't get it, so I asked for the solution. For some reason asking for the solution instead of working it out by yourself is seen as lazy in the unix community, I don't see why asking people that will already know is wrong since it is the method most likely to lead to the quickest solution.

Anyways! Thanks again