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2008-08-19 , 18:43
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Originally Posted by dan View Post
BrentDC many thanks.
No problem. It was mostly just me robbing the info from one of qole's posts a little while back

Gparted and Emelfm2 are very powerful apps for Nxx's.
Yes they are; you know Emelfm2 is available for Hildon, too? I use it constantly...

Would you happen to know how to make a mirror copy of mmc2 using Gparted?
Sadly, no. I haven't really looked to see what Gparted can do yet...

Also do you happen to know how to activate GMPC and QTStalker?? I got them loaded but I can't seem to activate(similar to GParted problem you just solved).
I'm not familiar with those applications. I may take a look in a while...

I know the sudo debian hilda <app>. When I try to launch Gparted from a menu I get an error message saying, 'Gparted must be run from root'. Just testing to see if it can be run from menu so I don't have to remember all these commands. GTKOrphan is the same way.
As qole said, drop the hilda and they run as root.

On the Maemo side I have several apps that need to be run from command line. Any ideas?? TIA
You mean Hildon apps? Then I strongly recommend you take a look at Personal Menu. It has nice little checkbox's for "Run in Terminal" and "Run as Root" [for hildon apps].

@qole: I happened to stumble across this one:

"sudo debian sudo -u user <app>" to run as user, and:

"sudo debian sudo -u root <app>" to run as root. Pretty kludgy though.
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