Thunar Root Warning
 

I was just curious, but did anyone manage to remove this? I followed this link: http://www.sgvulcan.com/remove-the-thunar-root-warning/

However it straight up just didn't work at all. Everything built successfully, but I still see that ugly warning when I run thunar. Just wondering if anyone has successfully done this. Oh, and please, I know it's a bad idea to run root and I'm wide open to script kiddies and blah blah blah. The very worst that could happen is I have to reinstall fresh because I decided the best way to start my morning is to rm -rf * /. I run linux as a hobby so I don't really mind.

I got used to it. Just a warning label that you're accessing as root. It's not going to harm you to see it.

the asterisk is redundant, recursive on root dir gets it all

had to abuse context :)

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imp...hunar-window.c

line 834

idk how that patch in the link even works
but you can just unpack the official one and repack it


sry admins for double post, i forget this is a proper forum that lets you edit

No the very worst that can happen your box gets owned and will be used for criminal activities against other computers and networks.

Or lets put it this way, you are like a drunk driver who thinks: Eh, my car is old, even if I crash it I can live with it. You do not realize you could kill somebody.

Nicely put.
I'm constantly amazed that people who don't understand enough to comment out a piece of code think they know better than the people who wrote that code.

grow up you two

Fortunately I won't kill anybody with my computer. Anyway, I managed to successfully remove the root warning. For the sake of this thread I'll post how and whatnot. As genss recommended, I unpacked the official .xz package and located the thunar-window.c file. Thanks genss for showing me where in the file the line was otherwise I wouldn't be posting my success. Commented out the related section and the just configured and installed the source. Thunar no longer has the root warning.

Thanks.

EDIT: I should also mention that even though this is sort of a petty thing to want, it's amazing how CRAZILY better Thunar looks without the warning :)

@slack_

As some quoted information can loose the original format, you can rename the attached diff to 'remove-root-warning.diff' and edit the build script to replace the patch line with 'cat $CWD/remove-root-warning.diff | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1'.

Thank you BrZ. I appreciate your help. However, I've already succeeded at removing the root warning in Thunar. It was easier then I expected.

Could you please elaborate on "official .xz package" and locating the thunar-window.c file for a lowly belligerent noob? I have also downloaded the thunar-window.c file but haven't the faintest what to do with it. It's a single user desktop and a debian test install, and i assure you that i am aware and in my senses when i login as root. :-)

mzsade,

(1) this thread is more than a year old, so most of these people are probably not reading this thread;

and (2) this thread is in the Slackware forum, the advice was for Slackware only, your Debian does not have an "official .xz package".

You need to go to a Debian forum and ask how you can build a Debian thunar package from source.

slack_,

wait... are you always logged in as root? that's how you use your system?