On Friday, January 18, 2019 4:52:45 AM EST Chris Rouch wrote: > On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 06:31, Robert McBroom via users < > > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Upgraded to F29. On KDE desktop starting EMACS in a privileged command > > window locks the system. Starting EMACS with sudo locks the system. On > > XFCE4 normal EMACS access with privilege. > > > > Other file managers don't like root but there are times when cli is > > awkward. > > I narrowed this down to xfconf-4.13.6-2.fc29.x86_64. Using an older version > or removing it entirely makes emacs from sudo work as expected. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667375 > > Regards, > > Chris That said, please *do not run Emacs as root*, but rather try to use TRAMP and sudo to access files when you need root permissions. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/
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