Re: problems with nautilus
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 02:00:47PM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>> This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid.
>>
>> I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a
>> terminal window
>> and issuing:
>>
>> sudo nautilus &
>>
>> --- nothing happens, no nautilus, no error message. the issuing
>> only
>>
>> nautilus &
>>
>> which opens nautilus, and gives an error message:
>>
>> "kjetil@kjetil:~$ Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
>>
>> [5] Done nautilus
>> "
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Looking at the manpage for nautilus
> (http://linux.die.net/man/1/nautilus), you might want to try:
>
> $ sudo nautilus --browser file:///
>
> or just:
>
> $ sudo nautilus file:///
Thanks for the help, but there is some strange interaction here with
sudo and &, because
sudo nautilus (without the &)
_does_ work!
Kjetil
>
> The man page suggests the URI is mandatory and the last time I used
> nautilus, I seem to remember that the default is to run as a desktop
> manager; the '--browser' flag should give you the window you want.
>
>
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