The aforementioned workaround needs to have an appropriate XAUTHORITY environment variable defined.
To sudo without doing this (e.g., from a command line process), try something like the following: # assumes the $USER and $HOME directories are defined somehow DBUS_SESSION=$(grep -v "^#" $HOME/.dbus/session-bus/`cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`-0) sudo -u $USER $DBUS_SESSION gconftool-2 --type string --set /system/proxy/mode manual -- gconfd does not refresh cache when sudo-ing current user to modify setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
