On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tony Baldwin<photodha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Matus UHLAR - >> fantomas<uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: >>> >>> On 13.06.09 09:32, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>>> >>>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports >>>> 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is >>>> it some idiotic "security feature"? (I get really steamed when fear >>>> overrides function!) >>> >>> why do you want to sun gnome-terminal under sudo, instead of running >>> su/sudo >>> in gnome terminal? >> >> Doing the former allows me to open new tabs as root, doing the latter >> (with 'su') requires that I provide my root password every time; using >> 'sudo' requires that I provide 'sudo command' every time. It's just a >> lot less convenient, but still doable, which is why the security >> excuse is BS. It's yet another example of sacrificing function to >> fear. >> >> Patrick >> >> > > Did you try > gksu gnome-terminal > ? > If not, do try.
Yes - with gksu set to sudo-mode, it fails silently (i.e. no warning, but no terminal either); with sudo-mode off, I get: ** (gnome-terminal:22316): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org