[SOLVED]Opening Obmenu as admin and general permissions issue

Hey guys
i did a new arch install with all the basics, sudo, and openbox. when i go into a terminal to open obmenu as an admin using sudo and whilst logged in as root, i get the following
I did cp all the xdg data menu.xml rc.xml and autostart to my home folder/username/.config/openbox
** (process:2920): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (process:2920): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GDriveStartFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (process:2920): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GSocketMsgFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
No protocol specified
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Error: "/root/.config/openbox/menu.xml" not found
Last edited by nankura (2012-07-18 11:48:51)

uh, owner is read and write, group read only and the other read only, and the owner is set to root not my username, so i think ive missed something extremely vital when using the useradd script during the arch installation
maybe i put a group i shouldnt have in the additional groups. either way. it seems i dont have permissions as my actual user "nankura"
i cant even change the permissions
Last edited by nankura (2012-07-18 10:36:15)

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