Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:46:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
>
>>So why don't you just run...
>>
>>gksu -d chromium
>>gksu -d qbittorrent
>>
>>And tell us what happens? :-)
>
> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium
^^^^^^^^^^
That's not what I've asked for...
> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent
^^^^^^^^^^
Neither this :-)
> As I have posted earlier. :o)
Nope. I wanted you to run those applications *as root*.
>>Okay, run "ls -la .config/*/" so we can see what's in there...
>
> Hmm, alright:
There is no trace in there for Chromium nor Qbittorrent, maybe they are
located in another folder under your user's path.
>>Then find where are those applications storing the configuration data,
>>it has to be somewhere under the user's profile.
>
> That's the problem - it does not create any other dir.(s)...
Hum... let's Google for the error. Look, some hits:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5b264e09ccb90f85&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1b658e3471dea50e&hl=en
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=22277
Check if any of those can help you with the Chromium error :-?
(...)
>>It should be just fine with "gksu -l newuser qbittorrent"
>
> This calls for root privileges - I would not run those this way.
Uh? Whay are you so reluctant to make this test? Don't worry, you won't
be cracked by running the above command X-)
>>("man gksu" for additional parameters to keep/discard the current user
>>environmental variables)
>
> It has not much to choose from. Seems nothing valuable.
?
You can test with different arguments to run the GUI application with one
or other environment variables set, this can make indeed a difference.
> Well. Please, do not waste too much of Your time on me - I gave my
> question because I thought people use gksu a lot and easily would guess
> what's wrong w/ my configuration, but turns out we are looking for
> solution instead of correction of wrong configuration - so we can end up
> here and will try to make a work around myself - for so it seems me to
> be as the answer.
(...)
Nah... You gave it up very quickly >:-P
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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