Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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One of the instances where I use su is when I am setting up postgresql and need to add myself as a user. You need to be user postgres, and there is no password. What I do then is to su, then su postgres, since root can become any user without a password.
Another is when I want to eliminate the graphical boot in Fedora -- i.e., I want to see the various operations running during boot as they happen. You do this by eliminating the rhgb quiet command from /etc/default/grub (which I do as myself, save it in my home directory, then 'sudo cp grub /etc/default/').
The next step is to run the command 'grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg', but as far as I know, you can't do this with sudo, so you need to be root.
Scribus can also edit PDFs. One or more pages from a PDF can be imported into Scribus. What you get is a layout of vector-based frames. You can't directly edit the text in the frames, so you would have to recreate text frames to replace those already in the document. Otherwise, you can rearrange, enlarge and shrink content as you wish, and move items from one page to another.