Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-08 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: I won't make furthers comments on this, it's your position and I'll respect it although I don't share your POV :-) I appreciate Your this POV! :) Camaleón, I think we are going in wrong direction here - I just have tried w/ chromium running w/

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:11:27 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: But again, Camaleón, I would not to run those app.s w/ root privileges. May, You have any other idea? If not, then lets stop w/ this - for I suppose it to be risky. I know, You have another

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:04:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium ^^ That's not what I've asked for... $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent ^^ Neither this :-) As I have posted

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: But again, Camaleón, I would not to run those app.s w/ root privileges. May, You have any other idea? If not, then lets stop w/ this - for I suppose it to be risky. I know, You have another opinion on the matter. But let's have no controversy here

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:46:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: So why don't you just run... gksu -d chromium gksu -d qbittorrent And tell us what happens? :-) $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:46:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: So why don't you just run... gksu -d chromium gksu -d qbittorrent And tell us what happens? :-) $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium ^^ That's not

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: So why don't you just run... gksu -d chromium gksu -d qbittorrent And tell us what happens? :-) $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium xauth: -13e165d7bacfc8c77079659f0ceaf146 - display: -:0- final xauth: -13e165d7bacfc8c77079659f0ceaf146

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:08:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón. Just several notes from me (as considerations). Why? I can do that successfully even under normal, new user. Why not? We are just making tests to get more clues. Because if a less

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Also, try to run gksu as root user. (...) Why? I can do that successfully even under normal, new user. Why not? We are just making tests to get more clues. Because if a less privileged user can do it than it is OK to suppose the root user will

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:16 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Also, try to run gksu as root user. (...) Why? I can do that successfully even under normal, new user. Why not? We are just making tests to get more clues. Because if a less privileged

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón. Just several notes from me (as considerations). Why? I can do that successfully even under normal, new user. Why not? We are just making tests to get more clues. Because if a less privileged user can do it than it is OK to suppose the root user

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-28 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Bob: Uhm... What? But he did! You must have missed that he said he wanted to run them from gksu. If you are not familiar with it that is the entire purpose of gksu. From the gksu man page: gksu is a frontend to su and gksudo is a frontend to sudo.

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:05:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except these two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created for the new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Nigel W wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Raf Czlonka wrote: Sthu hadn't mentioned even once that he tries to run those as root. Uhm... What? But he did! You must have missed that he said he wanted to run them from gksu. If you are not familiar with it that is the entire purpose of gksu.

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:13 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except these two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created for the new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove the appropriate dir.s in the home dir. of the

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-26 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:14:20PM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root.

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:14:20 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root. Those

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Raf Czlonka wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root. Those

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root. Those should be

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-26 Thread Nigel W
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 16:25, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Raf Czlonka wrote: Sthu hadn't mentioned even once that he tries to run those as root. Uhm...  What?  But he did!  You must have missed that he said he wanted to run them from gksu.  If you are not familiar with it that is the

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root. Those should be run as a normal non-root user. In other words,

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:44:48 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent w/ the error: Couldn't set environment variable... Is it only happening with just that two programs? launching so: /usr/bin/gksu -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent w/ the error: Couldn't set environment variable... Is it only happening with just that two programs? For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:42:25 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent w/ the error: Couldn't set environment variable... Is it only happening with just that two programs? For a new

gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I can not run two applications w/ gksu: chromium and qbittorrent w/ the error: Couldn't set environment variable... launching so: /usr/bin/gksu -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent or /usr/bin/gksu -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium Others seems to run OK. I have searched for