Re: gksu problem?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

I just updated my Intrepid box as of a few minutes ago.  I found that I
still needed a ~root/.orbitrc file and that I needed to disable the gksu
keyboard grab.  Once I did these two things, I was able to use Orca to
access a gcalctool launched with "gksu gcalctool".  Prior to making
those changes, the desktop essentially just hung.

The two lines needed in ~root/.orbitrc are as follows:

ORBIIOPIPv4=1
ORBIIOPUNIX=0

Hope this helps,

Will

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:38 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Is this problem caused by the fact that GConf now depends on D-Bus, and
> when you run a GUI via gksu, the root-running process can't connect to
> the D-Bus session?
> 
> If so, running "dbus-launch --exit-with-session (cmd)" instead of just
> "(cmd)" might work better.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately most applications are using gksu to run administrative
> > apps.
> >  
> > Under ubuntu intrepid I can run such applications using sudo from a
> > gnome-terminal.
> > This does the job but it would be cool to have access to these Programs
> > using their starters.
> > 
> > The Problems are:
> > When I start gksu -k synaptic,
> > Orca stopps working.
> > 
> > Can someone confirm this or can help to get this working?
> > The goal should be to have this stuff accessible without tweaking keys
> > etc in gconf!
> > Please
> > help
> > Regards
> > 
> > Halim
> > 
> > 
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