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#111
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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#112
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
@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.
Yeah, that's kinda what hilda and debbie do.
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Dan:

I noticed you ran qtstalker as root. That's almost always a bad idea. I still suspect that your permissions are causing you grief.

From the [root@Debian] prompt, do this:

Code:
rm -r /home/user/.qtstalker
hilda qtstalker
This should delete your qtstalker settings and force the program to re-create them. And since you're running qtstalker as user now (notice the "hilda" in there? Don't forget it!) your permissions should be correct.

If it doesn't run still, post your terminal output...
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Thanks Qole and BrentDC WOOOHOOO!! I got both Gparted and GTOrpan running from my menu. To run Gparted from menu properly you need to write out ' Exec=sudo debian gparted /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk1 '. In case anyone wants to see their partitions. Now how to get GMPC and QTStalker running properly. TIA
 
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Here is my terminal output fot QTStalker.

[root@Debian: /]rm -r /home/user/ .qtstalker
rm: cannot remove directory `/home/user': Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `.qtstalker': No such file or directory
[root@Debian: /]hilda qtstalker
su user -c qtstalker
 
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Thanks BrentDC for fielding the questions; people seem to listen to you more than to me, for some reason. I guess I'm not spelling things out clearly enough...
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#117
Originally Posted by dan View Post
Here is my terminal output fot QTStalker.

[root@Debian: /]rm -r /home/user/ .qtstalker
rm: cannot remove directory `/home/user': Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `.qtstalker': No such file or directory
Um, yikes. You just tried to delete your entire home directory. There is no space before .qtstalker in that command!
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OK that 'rm' just trashed my entire unit. I lost all my custom menus. I now have a mouse pointer on my screen!!! I don't have a mouse connected!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! In file manager my user/documents/image folder has disappeared. Any idea how to fix this. I can easily restore Debian the mmc2 dual boot works. But how do I bring up the Maemo stuff. Yikes!! HEEEELLLPPPP!!!
 
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.... Ouch.

You just remove forced your entire maemo home directory... there likely isn't a way to get that back.. you gotta watch them spaces man o.o...

Looks like you need to re-clone your flash.... There isn't a trash bin when using rm =-(
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Boy I missed that one! So what do I do now? See why I need to backup everything.
 
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