Fantastic. By changing the config directory ownership to my own account
I can use geany again to edit my own files without sudo'ing! (And can
still edit www-data files for eg OK via sudo.)
I'd reverted to gedit for a while.
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Running Geany as an user with the environment pointing at another is not
supported, and won't be changed.
`sudo` should be configured to reset the environment so applications
don't try and use another user's configuration directory. There are
many reasons why resetting the environment is useful,
** Changed in: geany (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256506
Title:
Configuration directory owned by root
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I totally disagree with you. The bug is valid and the solution is
correct.
I used to use geany on 12.04 without any problem but when I upgrade to
14.04 I encountered this error. It is in searching for a solution that
I got here.
So the bug is valid but the solution is correct and it should be c
Thanks for checking, gonna close this bug as "Invalid". Feel free to
reopen or report a new bug should you ever encounter this or another
issue again.
And don't be sorry about reporting a bug, every report is valuable!
status invalid
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Ouch.
That sounds like a plausible explanation. Browsing through my CLI
history I'm finding one instance of 'sudo geany', and it _is_ possible
that was for the first run.
Thanks for taking time to check, and sorry for a most likely unnecessary
bug report.
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