On 2009-10-07, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I used to use meld regularly on different versions of system >>> config files (that are only readble by root). ??However, >>> sometime recently meld stopped working when run as root: > > Sorry - meant to respond to this. There haven't been any changes to > Meld that should change running as root. See below. [...] > I'm guessing you're seeing > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555745 (in gconf) That looks like it might be it. Meld is probably the only GTK program I ever run as root. > though why it only just started happening I have no idea. > Anyway, the 'su -' workaround seems to work. Thanks, I'll try that. > Unless Gentoo has patched one in, Meld doesn't support a 'no > Gnome' mode. Having said that, if Meld fails to find gconf, it > will use python's configparser configuration backend instead. > If you really don't want gconf at all, you can change the > import logic at the end of prefs.py. I'll take a look at that as well. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm meditating on at the FORMALDEHYDE and the visi.com ASBESTOS leaking into my PERSONAL SPACE!! _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
