Opening a system files folder in root

alan-g59

Hello everyone,

I want to customize a little more my budgie desktop with new GTK themes. But I can't past nothing in the /usr/share/themes folder because I do not have privileges.

How could I past some themes in that folder ?

Thank you. 🙂

Girtablulu

Sudo mv file path

dbarron

Yes, cmd line is your friend. Become better accquainted.

aleksvor

You shouldn't use /usr/share/themes for manually installed themes, typically this folder is used for themes that are installed by package manager. For themes installed from third-party sources ~/.themes folder is more preferable and it doesn't need privilege escalation.
Or you can just paste your themes in the system-wide folder using privilege escalation (as Girt wrote above).

alan-g59

aleksvor Yes, a friend told me about the risks.

I made sudo nautilus /usr/share/themes and I never should do this. So, I deleted immediately the themes I pasted. I hope I did not make something wrong to my computer.

So, I went to /home/alan and I clicked on Ctrl + H. I saw .local folder. Then, I went to share folder and I created themes folder. I pasted my theme. And voilà. It worked. 😃

kyrios

I agree with @aleksvor, ideally you should use ~/.themes because the things you put in /usr/share/themes might be overridden when the theme package is updated.

MTech

You can also install "nautilus-admin" and after that you can open files as admin in file manager. You will need to reboot or log off. But better don't mess with system files. Usually people regret it.

brent

MTech I'm Liking this simply for you bringing to my attention such a creature exists. Graci--

dbarron

Dear god, a gui file manager running as root is simply terrifying.

brent

dbarron C'mon, like what could go wrong? 😉