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Cannot set third party color scheme as sudo #2896

Open nemumaru opened 1 year ago

nemumaru commented 1 year ago

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

On an up to date system run sudo apt install followed by sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. Download dracula theme to ~/.config/micro/colorschemes. I also gave catppuccin themes a try, same results.

Specifications

Third party colorschemes do not work under sudo. They do as a regular user and the themes provided by micro itself can be changed under sudo. Regarding Issue 2201 I went into .bashrc and added the line export MICRO_CONFIG_HOME=/home/myusername/.config/micro/. I also gave the value "~/.config/micro/" a try, both times with and without quotation marks. Everytime I did a change, I saved the file, backed out of it, closed alacritty, restarted alacritty, ran sudo micro and tried to set a scheme with CTRL+E->set colorscheme dracula->Enter. Unfortunately I get faced with "dracula is not a valid colorscheme". Everything works fine when using micro without sudo privs.

I also ran sudo micro -config-dir /home/myusername/.config/micro/ again, once with and once without quotation marks. After both runs a blank file opened and I hit CTRL+E->set colorscheme dracula->Enter. No Error-Message, but also no change in the visuals. When backing out of the file and running sudo micro, there still is no change in the visuals, when now trying to change the scheme again, I am hit with "dracula is not a valid colorscheme".

The export which is set in the .bashrc itself seems to work though as there are now a folder called buffers, a bindings.json and settings.json file in the /.config/micro/ folder. The settings.json file does hold the data colorscheme "dracula" as expected.

Commit hash: 2.0.11 OS: Debian 12 Terminal: Alacritty Shell: bash 5.2.15

JoeKar commented 1 year ago

This is not a bug of micro and no bug at all. By invoking sudo the default behavior is to ignore the environment of the invoking user. This can be changed by using sudo -E [COMMAND]. So in your scenario you've to add -config-dir= with sudo or using sudo -E, which will then respect $MICRO_CONFIG_HOME.

237dmitry commented 1 year ago

Or set "autosu": true, in ~/.config/micro/settings.json to avoid sudo command. The sudo prompt will be appears when you save file.

JoeKar commented 1 year ago

Or set "autosu": true

Yes, this can be a further solution, but many users are already familiar with the invocation of sudo or sudoedit and they need to preserve the environment to user their normal user settings.