This annoys me.....

[3eyes]

I'm downloading themes and icon sets and the web site insists on putting them all in my /tmp directory as they download. Why can't they let me choose where they go so I can organize them by type (icons in one sub-directory, windows decorations in another, etc)? Or am I just too much of a control freak?

No, wait, one of the things I like about Linux is that lets me be a control freak.  

[Stryker]

what site?

[3eyes]

www.kde-look.org

[flap]

What makes you think you have to put them in /tmp?

[TheQuirk]

It's probably your browser. Though usually the file is automatically created where you specify (/home/monkey/downloads, etc.), some browsers simply download the file to /tmp and then to the location you want.

Really, this is an issue with your browser--you'd be better off telling what browser you're running if you want any real help.

[3eyes]

It's Mozilla 1.4; I don't know why but when I clciked download, the download manager popped up downloading the file to /tmp automatically.   :confused:  Anyway, I copied the files to my home diorectory, to be safe, and when I closed Mozilla the files disappeared from /tmp.

Another little glitch I'm having is that I can't sudo root with my regular account. It says "is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported." But my regular account *is* in the sudo group, I checked!  :confused:  

Ugh, I'm getting a headache. There must be some settings somewhere I don't know about.

[flap]

Not the sudo group, the /etc/sudoers file.

[3eyes]

Oh, ok! Thanks!

[emh]

In Mozilla, go to Edit - Preferences

Under the "Navigator" tab, look at Downloads

I think what you want is "Open the download manager".  Make sure that's selected, and hit "ok"

If it is already selected, I'm not sure what else could be the issue.

[Faust]

btw make sure to man sudo.  and use visudo, not vi / emacs / whatever as visudo will help you check for formatting errors.

[solo]

when mozilla doesn't ask you what you want to do with the file it probably means it wants to play with it, ie it thinks its a mozilla theme or something. First thing to try, right click the download link, Save Link As or whatever. If you get the same problem, whip out konqueror for your kdelook.org needs. But with konqueror, theres a stupid god damned bug that makes the Ark viewer in konqueror save the file its opening to a temporary file thats random, but with the real file extension tacked on. Well guess what, for tar.gz files ark saves something like blah.tar.gz to sdifj438sdofij.gz . note the missing ".tar" before the .gz. This problem is easy to deal with, just either let it go, right click on the konqueror48sdf8 blah file and click Extract, then open do a tar -xf <file> on it. Or you can right click and do save link as.