From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNBxB-000155-AO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:21:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8CHL2AG003085; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:21:02 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8CHGf0S017699 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:16:42 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so2333393wxc for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:16:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TYK4X4EluFhOllqPK5vCEu3DatwTcWtYsVtiVpoz2OUr4PlZvEFk+Owoc+Q0Jiry/dE9OnhWjf+6lBtvh5/klYiUs2wvKyLmCE7lTaLybBau5p90gHavyOOVUTxnspSK5wACThGp1Tql0PcMg7yOiGCSCVuEQJTbya2+uMqcFRw= Received: by 10.90.118.12 with SMTP id q12mr2304541agc; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.55.4 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:16:41 -0400 From: "Neil Isaac" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more! In-Reply-To: <7e7f5e710609120805s61f0e90et7aa2efc3f3cb8e5d@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7e7f5e710609120805s61f0e90et7aa2efc3f3cb8e5d@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: de18f61b-3e28-48f5-aef1-f08e07273de9 X-Archives-Hash: 0ac3b01398a23e7c0d1abf26f33240ff On 9/12/06, A. R. 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! -- Neil Isaac isaac.neil@gmail.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list