I recently started using Linux, and I’ve been noticing that certain applications do not have permissions to read/write files. How is this possible? The only programs I have noticed having issues so far are Tor Browser and Lemonbar. With Tor, I cannot save downloads anywhere outside of Tor’s own dire…

[image] lowpoly: With Tor, I cannot save downloads anywhere outside of Tor’s own directory. [2021-12-22-221105_1920x944_scrot] go to settings > search download > save file to

[image] lowpoly: I recently started using Linux, and I’ve been noticing that certain applications do not have permissions to read/write files. How is this possible? The only programs I have noticed having issues so far are Tor Browser and Lemonbar. With Tor, I cannot save downloads anywhere outs…

Whenever I try to navigate outside of the “Browser” folder to choose my desired downloads folder, the program freezes and I have to kill it via a terminal.

While the answer from @ishaan2479 is to configure the download directory for Tor, there may still be a permission issue that needs to be resolved. This has something to do with the concept of “user”, “group”, and “permission” in Linux. To simplify the concept, you can use ls -l PATH_TO_DIRECTORY …

You can use append sudo to any command to quickly solve permission issue I tried running lemonbar as root, but it still said permission denied. Obviously, I am saving files in Tor via GUI, so I can’t use sudo there.

Lemonbar was installed from AUR, and Tor was I believe installed from community repos.

Hello @lowpoly and welcome :wink: [image] lowpoly: With Tor, I cannot save downloads anywhere outside of Tor’s own directory. With Lemonbar, I can’t access my .sh file in ~/.config/lemonbar. Could it be possible that you installed firejail? pamac list --quiet --installed | grep "firejail" &…

[image] lowpoly: When I do ls -la, it shows the permissions for .config/ as drwxr-xr-x. I don’t really know what that means :arrow_down: [image] [Tutorial] Understanding and working with UNIX filesystems and permissions Tutorials Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ No…

pamac list --quiet --installed | grep "firejail" && pamac info firejail doesn’t output anything. pamac list --quiet --installed | grep "lemonbar" && pamac info lemonbar outputs lemonbar-xft-git Name : lemonbar Version : 1.4-1 Description : A featherweight, …

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Aragorn 22 December 2021 17:13 10

lowpoly:

When I do ls -la, it shows the permissions for .config/ as drwxr-xr-x. I don’t really know what that means

[Tutorial] Understanding and working with UNIX filesystems and permissions Tutorials

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Note: This post is meant as a tutorial. Please do not post on this thread regarding any problems you’re having with permissions, but start a new thread instead. Thank you. PREAMBLE: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND If you are new to the world of GNU/Linux ─ and especially if you come from the Microsoft Windows ecosystem ─ then you will undoubtedly have already noticed that GNU/Linux handles permissions and storage volumes quite differently from what you might be used to …

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