#Can't open VS code as root

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neon totem
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I can not edit or save the edits I make to my dwm.conf

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can not open it also via sudo code dwm.c

jaunty oar
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what does it error out as

inland laurel
short needle
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why is it a problem

valid schooner
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.s litany

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valid schooner
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everyone is in the dark here lmfao

neon totem
inland laurel
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ok

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well a better solution to running it as sudo would to be to get a polkit authentication agent

neon totem
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soo sudo pacman -S polkit

inland laurel
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you need an authentication agent as well

serene mantle
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another good practice would be to copy that to your home dir somehow like in ~/.config

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unless you want the same config on multiple users

neon totem
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If I have it in my home dir I would not have be that complicated to run?

serene mantle
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I"m actually not sure with dwm, but with i3 I just copied it to ~/.config/i3 and in my .zshenv in home dir I source export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"

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as in I have another dir in .config called i3, and inside it has a file called config so ~/.config/i3/config

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but then you shouldn't really need root permissions if you can figure that out

short needle
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maybe you can use sudoedit with vscode as the editor

short needle
short needle
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like an xsession file that runs dwm wherever you installed it