Thanks for the sudo tip Sebastien! That connected a lot of dots for me. I'm a little closer now, but still stuck.
Here's what I tried in the terminal: sudo /etc/apt/sources.list sudo /filesystem/etc/apt/sources.list Each of those returned; 'Command not found', or 'location unknown' or something like that. I think I discovered that / is the root, so adding 'filesystem' is just redundant. Am I right? Then just tried doing the old cd drill-down method, just as I would with Windows. I successfully changed directory to /etc/apt but now cannot figure out open sources.list from there. I drilled down in the GUI by going to Places -> Computer and opened the sources.list file in text editor, but then I don't have the permissions to save changes after adding the lines your link instructed. A thousand apologies for my noobness. At this point I'm still all drive and no vector... - John -----Original Message----- From: boun...@canonical.com [mailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of Sebastien Bacher Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:02 PM To: j...@thorough-tech.com Subject: [Bug 411681] Re: Draging to resize,or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player dissapear you can use use sudo before the command you want to use, ie sudo editor sources.list -- Draging to resize, or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player dissapear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411681 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in "totem" package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: totem Totem closes while attempting to resize or full screen the window; via drag or double-click. However, on occasion it will squash an anamorphic widescreen movie into a 4:3 full screen (everything is tall & thin). Attempts to resize either remain squashed or close Totem altogether. This only happens with actual DVD discs. I've been playing movies I ripped to .avi (xvid & .AC3) without error. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and am a total noob...working on converting from "Windoze" (advanced with that, so any translative language would be much appreciated). I followed some forum threads about installing codecs and upgrading programs. Please advise... ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: totem Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686 -- Draging to resize, or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player dissapear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs