I throw myself on your mercy, this is for a kubuntu install not a gentoo install - but you guys are the most technical bunch I know :)
I start an app with 'gksudo simple-backup-config', (a gtk backup utility 'sbackup') and all is well, the GUI it is rendered perfectly. I upgrade my system. I start the app with 'gksudo simple-backup-config', YUK it looks like someone chewed it, the graphics are so primitive, white blocks around the GUI radio buttons, the tabs are separated and look like loose teeth, the buttons have lost their border and are just icons. Experimenting I found that 'gksudo -k simple-backup-config' restored it to its former beauty, as did straight 'sudo simple-backup-config'. Ahh I thought - environmental variables so I dug out a script to dump all environmental variables, did a diff between gksudo and gksudo -k and got ... < DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID = gksudo/|home|vanda| test/27282-0-vanda-comp_TIME771509819 --- > DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID = gksudo/|home|vanda| test/27292-0-vanda-comp_TIME771642528 13c13 < HOME = /root --- > HOME = /home/vanda 38c38 < XAUTHORITY = /tmp/libgksu1.2-AbpNh8/.Xauthority --- > XAUTHORITY = /tmp/libgksu1.2-wNoSTR/.Xauthority Not much change there. OK I am stumped. what else changes between gksudo and gksudo -k to affect GUI rendering ? I know its no big deal but I would like to know. :) Thanks in advance Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
