Copy and Paste

[DaveFL]

Hey Guys,

I wanted to copy and past some wallpapers from my downloads directory to the default fedora backgrounds directory /usr/share/backgrounds

Unfortunately, paste is shaded out and ctrl+v doesnt work. So I had to do it via Terminal commands. Is there a way to make it just like windows where i can copy and paste from one directory to another reqardless of the directory permissions? In users i do have my user setup as admin and root.

Thank you in advance.

[DBelton]

you have to copy them into /usr/share/backgrounds as root user.

if you open a terminal

su -
(root password)

nautilus

That should open a file manager window with root permissions so you could copy/paste

[DaveFL]

perfect, ty.

[bodhi.zazen]

FYI: If you wish you can put the backgrounds in ~/Pictures

They would only be available per-user that way (which may be preferred for some images on a shared computer).

[DaveFL]

Originally Posted by bodhi.zazen

FYI: If you wish you can put the backgrounds in ~/Pictures

They would only be available per-user that way (which may be preferred for some images on a shared computer).

I was trying to change my gdm user background, that is how this question came about. You can either use terminal with these commands:

#xhost +
# sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center

But the problem is that I could not find a way to get backgrounds to the gdm user backgrounds folder (custom background). The solution I found was an app called GDM3 Settings, it is a GUI to edit the gdm user background (from any directory) and theme. Here is a link to it http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/gdm3s...wallpaper.html

I know this was off topic, but i figured it might help someone.

[bodhi.zazen]

Nice one =)

[DBelton]

Originally Posted by DaveFL

I was trying to change my gdm user background, that is how this question came about. You can either use terminal with these commands:

#xhost +
# sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center

But the problem is that I could not find a way to get backgrounds to the gdm user backgrounds folder (custom background). The solution I found was an app called GDM3 Settings, it is a GUI to edit the gdm user background (from any directory) and theme. Here is a link to it http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/gdm3s...wallpaper.html

I know this was off topic, but i figured it might help someone.

actually, you should have used a little more on those commands

su -
(root password)

xhost +SI:localuser:gdm

sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center

Edit: remove typo in above xhost command