On Fre, 2007-04-20 at 00:18 +0200, Michał Majchrowicz wrote: > Hi. > I noticed (on many different machines) that nautilus cannot be run by > root. Is it expected behaviour? When I am logged as user (i.e.) john > then when I do run in console nautilus window pops up (as expected). > But when I do something like this: > su > Enter root password > nautilus > Nothing happens :( The program just hangs... > Please tell me why it is like this?
That's because there is no dbus session daemon for root running. You should be able to start nautilus by using dbus-launch; I don't know whether that's the recommended solution, though. Jürg -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
