* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!
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@ 2006-09-12 17:16 ` Neil Isaac
2006-09-12 22:25 ` Hervé
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From: Neil Isaac @ 2006-09-12 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 9/12/06, A. R. <feoymalo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have finished a new Gentoo installation with Gnome as the desktop
> environment. It is working okay, except for a couple of issues:
>
> 1. The admin browsers (Services, Shares etc) do not work properly.
> When I try to open "services-admin" for example, as a normal user, the
> window comes up, all "greyed out" and nothing else happens! I am not a
> very experienced Gnome user, but I was expecting to be prompted for
> the root password. Something must be wrong with my configuration since
> running services-admin as root works!
Try changing your launcher to use gksudo to launch services-admin
(make sure you run visudo and allow yourself to run all commands).
> 2. The icon browser that pops up when attempting to put an icon on a
> custom app launcher does not browse anything other than
> /us/share/pixmaps. If I change to a different directory, I cannot
> select any of the icons in that directory!
I find that I need to type the path (or browse to it) and press enter
in the text field afterwards to display the icons in that directory.
> Has anybody experienced the same problems? I know that they are not
> very critical to the whole operation of the environment, but man, are
> they annoying?
Sure are ;) I hope this helps!
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2006-09-12 17:16 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more! Neil Isaac
@ 2006-09-12 22:25 ` Hervé
2006-09-12 20:44 ` A. R.
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From: Hervé @ 2006-09-12 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi,
1\ have you install sys-libs/pam.
2\ have you the flag "pam" inside the USE variable.
Regards,
Hervé
Le mardi 12 septembre 2006 à 11:05 -0400, A. R. a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>
> I have finished a new Gentoo installation with Gnome as the desktop
> environment. It is working okay, except for a couple of issues:
>
> 1. The admin browsers (Services, Shares etc) do not work properly.
> When I try to open "services-admin" for example, as a normal user, the
> window comes up, all "greyed out" and nothing else happens! I am not a
> very experienced Gnome user, but I was expecting to be prompted for
> the root password. Something must be wrong with my configuration since
> running services-admin as root works!
>
> 2. The icon browser that pops up when attempting to put an icon on a
> custom app launcher does not browse anything other than
> /us/share/pixmaps. If I change to a different directory, I cannot
> select any of the icons in that directory!
>
> Has anybody experienced the same problems? I know that they are not
> very critical to the whole operation of the environment, but man, are
> they annoying?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> - AR
>
> --
> If you stare long enough into an abyss, the abyss will stare back into you...
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