On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> Accustom yourself to run a login shell when launching GUI based >> applications (i.e., "su -" instead "su") ;-) >> > > Thank you :) > > that's better, still some GTK warnings > > root@debian:/home/spinymouse# su --login > root@debian:~# gedit > > (gedit:8179): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename > '/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory > > (gedit:8179): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create > file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.0T0SWV': No such file or > directory > > (gedit:8179): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or > directory I think you can safely ignore those warnings (BTW, I don't get them on my wheezy) or you can try to find why they are flooding your screen. >From your root dir, run: ls -la ls -la .local/share > Could it be that some distros handle it different to Debian? IIRC on > Suse su + gedit is ok ... I need to check this later. Yep, each distribution use their own tricks but reagardless the distro, it is still preferable to use "su -" or "gksu/kdesu" when you want to run GUI applications despite the GTK warnings :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.10.11.03...@gmail.com
