On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Patrick Wiseman<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu<[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports >> >> How do you know that? I thought gksu was used for that. Try: >> >> gksu gnome-terminal > > That yields: > > ** (gnome-terminal:14228): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the > session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the > authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based > authentication failed > > Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. > > Which, I suppose, is slightly more informative. But the fact remains > that Root Terminal in the Accessories menu is, for some reason, > disabled. (This is on a fully up-to-date, amd64, testing system.)
Further Googling informs me that "the result [of Gconf using D-Bus] is that root applications can’t use the user’s GConf settings anymore. This is a design restriction in D-Bus." [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518390] Well, that's just stupid, especially for experienced users like myself; I NEED to be able to use gnome-terminal as root. I don't want a hackish workaround, I just want it to work as it always has. Is there ANY way to make D-Bus less restrictive? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
