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Intrepidus

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Registered: 2007-02-08

Posts: 54

Gnome user settings?

This must be insanely simple and I am just having horrible luck.

In other distros when I install gnome, I generally get a user administration panel under System -> Administration. Arch didn't supply one, so I grabbed gnome-system-tools and there it appeared. But I can't access it with my normal user ("You are not allowed to access system configuration"), and can't login to GDM using root. I'm not sure what group I need to add myself to do gain access (which is why I wanted the GUI anyhow...).

EDIT: Tried to get into gnome as root, still couldn't access the user settings.

floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: Gnome user settings?

I had/have a similar problem

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40447

Ended up using CLI.
AFAIK this is a gnome issue that affects plenty of distros and not just Arch.

mmmasterluke

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 49

Re: Gnome user settings?

Here is a similar discussion. They haven't found a solution either though...

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=324483

EDIT
It's strange though. I remember using these tools every now and then and they worked fine. I removed them at some point because I didn't really need them. In the course of this thread I re-installed them to see what's going on and now I have the same problem .

--masterluke

Last edited by mmmasterluke (2008-02-03 15:04:10)

Xinkill

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Registered: 2008-02-03

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome user settings?

I do have System > Administration but it's only giving me the login windows option. This seems a little bit to few for me.
Can't there be a way to change the permission of that gnome option?