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swordfish

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Registered: 2012-01-14

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[solved] "sudo meld" doesn't work

Hi there,

recently I've installed "meld" for merging tasks. The problem: as a user meld works pretty fine but obviously doesn't save any changes to files that require root permission. Now I have tried to start meld with sudo, but this doesn't work:

$ sudo meld
Passwort:

** (process:9665): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (process:9665): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GDriveStartFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (process:9665): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GSocketMsgFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
No protocol specified
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
/usr/bin/meld:126: GtkWarning: IA__gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 126, in <module>
    gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append_search_path'

I must admit that i don't have an idea what that means

So, any help would be appreciated

Last edited by swordfish (2012-06-03 12:18:09)

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/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [solved] "sudo meld" doesn't work

My initial guess is that different users don't automatically get access to X - in particular, I suppose sudo doesn't automatically work for gtk apps.

Something like gksudo may work?

swordfish

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 160

Re: [solved] "sudo meld" doesn't work

Something like gksudo may work?

Seems you are right . I've installed gksu and now it seems to work - the GUI starts when I use "gksudo meld".

Maybe gksu should become a dependency for meld?!

Thanks a lot

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stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Re: [solved] "sudo meld" doesn't work

"sudo meld" works fine for me under Xfce.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [solved] "sudo meld" doesn't work

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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