Hi Phill,

Trying to run an application with gksudo ccauses the AT-SPI to hang and you lose all speech on the desktop.

In order to regain speech you need to login to a text console and run 'sudo killall gksudo'

This restores speech and in previous versions of Ubuntu gained you access to the application in question.

That is why many people run applications from the terminal with sudo instead of using the launchers in the admin menu which use gksudo.

However whether I use sudo or gksudo in my new Lucid installation I can't gain access to the application in question.

Paul


On 29/04/10 18:50, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
Hi,

any graphical interfaces should be run as gksudo and not sudo

gksudo gedit test

using sudo can cause headaches with permissions being altered.

Regards,

Phill.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Paul Hunt <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi list,

    I just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid (via a fresh install) and I'm
    finding I can't get Orca to read any applications I run with sudo from
    the terminal.

    For example; doing

    sudo gedit test

    Brings up an inaccessible window.

    I had a quick look back through the archives but noone else seems
    to be
    reporting this.

    Any ideas what's going on?

    Running admin apps with sudo has been working fine in the last few
    releases of Ubuntu without need for any hacking or anything.

    Thanks.
    Paul


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