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On 9/12/06, A. R. <feoymalo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have finished a new Gentoo installation with Gnome as the desktop |
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> environment. It is working okay, except for a couple of issues: |
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> 1. The admin browsers (Services, Shares etc) do not work properly. |
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> When I try to open "services-admin" for example, as a normal user, the |
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> window comes up, all "greyed out" and nothing else happens! I am not a |
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> very experienced Gnome user, but I was expecting to be prompted for |
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> the root password. Something must be wrong with my configuration since |
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> running services-admin as root works! |
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Try changing your launcher to use gksudo to launch services-admin |
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(make sure you run visudo and allow yourself to run all commands). |
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> 2. The icon browser that pops up when attempting to put an icon on a |
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> custom app launcher does not browse anything other than |
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> /us/share/pixmaps. If I change to a different directory, I cannot |
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> select any of the icons in that directory! |
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I find that I need to type the path (or browse to it) and press enter |
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in the text field afterwards to display the icons in that directory. |
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> Has anybody experienced the same problems? I know that they are not |
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> very critical to the whole operation of the environment, but man, are |
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> they annoying? |
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Sure are ;) I hope this helps! |
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Neil Isaac |
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isaac.neil@×××××.com |
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