Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

[Neil Isaac]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

[A. R.]

> Hi,
> 1\ have you install sys-libs/pam.
> 2\ have you the flag "pam" inside the USE variable.

Hi,
I have considered this, but I am hesitant because I remember reading
something in this group about pam not playing nice with gentoo:
something about permissions on devices. My system has been built with
USE="-pam" so I may give it a try.

Am I wrongly concerned?

Thank you,

- AR


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!

[Hervé]

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
> 
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> If you stare long enough into an abyss, the abyss will stare back into you...


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