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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:16:41 -0400
From: "Neil Isaac" <isaac.neil@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gnome admin browsers, and more!
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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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Neil Isaac
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