Bug#881365: Synaptic Does Not Work on XFCE Unless Launched from Terminal.

2018-03-17 Thread Mike Kupfer
Package: synaptic
Version: 0.84.2
Followup-For: Bug #881365

Dear Maintainer,

I am seeing the same issue: if I try to start Synaptic from the Xfce
main menu, there is no visible activity.  If I want to run Synaptic in
Xfce, I start it from a root shell process.

This may be a bug in some Xfce package.  Starting Synaptic from the
menu works fine in MATE.

regards,
mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages synaptic depends on:
ii  hicolor-icon-theme   0.17-1
ii  libapt-inst2.0   1.6~beta1
ii  libapt-pkg5.01.6~beta1
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.26.1-3
ii  libc62.27-2
ii  libcairo-gobject21.15.10-1
ii  libcairo21.15.10-1
ii  libept1.5.0  1.1+nmu3+b1
ii  libgcc1  1:8-20180312-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.54.3-2
ii  libgnutls30  3.5.18-1
ii  libgtk-3-0   3.22.28-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0   1.40.14-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.14-1
ii  libpcre2-8-0 10.31-3
ii  libstdc++6   8-20180312-2
ii  libvte-2.91-00.50.2-4
ii  libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxapian30  1.4.5-1
ii  policykit-1  0.105-18
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages synaptic recommends:
ii  libgtk2-perl   2:1.24992-1+b1
pn  rarian-compat  
ii  xdg-utils  1.1.2-2

Versions of packages synaptic suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index 0.49
pn  deborphan
pn  dwww 
ii  menu 2.1.47+b1
pn  software-properties-gtk  
ii  tasksel  3.43

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Bug#881365: Synaptic Does Not Work on XFCE Unless Launched from Terminal.

2017-11-10 Thread Joshua Blagden
Package: synaptic
  Severity: urgent

Dear Debian developers and maintainers, I have recently switched from GNOME to 
XFCE due to speed. 
However, Synaptic does not work in XFCE. Synaptic works in XFCE, but only when 
launched from Terminal with the help of sudo. 
To be more precise, there is no graphical way to launch Synaptic, likely 
because XFCE does not know how to deal with Synaptic's password request.

 * Package name: Synaptic
   Version : 0.84.2





Regards,
Joshua Blagden