Temporary SOLUTION: I've found another workaround. Unfortunately for us this doesn't seems to be a bug, at least I guess there's no intention from gnome developers to solve it soon:
A upstream developer said: "You shouldn't start GNOME programmes with elevated privileges, it's not supported. In any case, not a gnome- terminal bug". It's not just nautilus it's any gnome application with a GUI. This can be confirmed according to the upstream of the Nautilus bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/805682, at Gnome bugzilla (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654184). It's clear that Gnome developers don't design their programs to be runned as root. So, since they don't want to support gnome graphical programs as root, it's not a bug. If you can read more about why they don't support this you can read: - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2014450 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1019995 But it IS a problem if we want to start gnome graphical programs as root. So we need alternative solutions: - Paddy Landau have created a workaround for it (comment #20) and posted it at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12071894&postcount=81. - You can use alternative applications (like graphical leafpad or vim and nando in the terminal). - Running sudo gedit (NOT recommended, graphical programs should be runned with gksudo or kdesudo) - The simplest solution I got. (See down). As Derek White posted in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/890041. $ gedit # opens untitled document $ gedit /path/to/file # opens file $ sudo gedit /path/to/file # opens file $ gksu gedit /path/to/file # opens file & untitled document $ gksudo gedit /path/to/file # opens file & untitled document I figured out that it only happens when you try to gksudo with other user. For example: $ gksudo -u userA /path/to/file # Will opens file normally if logged as userA. $ gksudo /path/to/file # Will also opens normally if you're logged as root (with sudo -i or something). But if you are root and try to gksudo with other user it will brings the untitled document again: $ gksudo -u UserA /path/to/file # Will opens file & untitled document. So, as long as we are supossed to run graphical applications with gksudo, the solution is to be logged as root and run gedit with gksudo (whitout parameters it'll run as root). If you want to do this in one single line you can do: $ sudo gksudo gedit /path/to/file # Works perfectly. $ gksudo gksudo gedit /path/to/file # Works perfectly. I recomend this, specially if you want to call gedit in a script or something. That's it! I wish this can help to devs to deciding fix this problem an support graphical as root. Or someone else to add the feature to Gnome applications. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #654184 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654184 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/796076 Title: When run as root [gksudo gedit <whatever>] gedit tries to open a 2nd 'untitled document 1' Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: New Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Ex. gksudo gedit /etc/fstab will open fstab successfully but will also try to open "Untitled Document 1" at the same time If just running gksudo gedit than you'll get "Untitled Document 1" that never does fully open (become writable == Regression details == Discovered in version: 3.0.4-0ubuntu2 Last known good version: 2.30.4-2ubuntu1 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gedit 3.0.4-0ubuntu2 [modified: usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43lp760131v201106060906-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Jun 11 19:11:08 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/796076/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
