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When starting a Gnome 3 app with sudo (e.g. gedit, nautilus), I can't open the application menu in the top bar.
Is there a solution for this? I tried Google but couldn't find anything...
Thanks!
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That's normal. To access the application menu, clic on the application name on the top bar.
See here for example.
Forget what I wrote... I didn't read your questin correctly.
No idea - same thing happens here.
Last edited by matse (2014-05-08 13:12:41)
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When starting gedit with sudo or gksu I found that the global menu wouldn't open just as you guys pointed out. But I also found that if you start gedit with su -c then the global menu will work.
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When starting gedit with sudo or gksu I found that the global menu wouldn't open just as you guys pointed out. But I also found that if you start gedit with su -c then the global menu will work.
Thanks for the nice tip. However, I don't think this is expected behaviour, is it? Should we file a bug against Gnome-Shell for this?
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Chazza wrote:When starting gedit with sudo or gksu I found that the global menu wouldn't open just as you guys pointed out. But I also found that if you start gedit with su -c then the global menu will work.
Thanks for the nice tip. However, I don't think this is expected behaviour, is it? Should we file a bug against Gnome-Shell for this?
I can't think that this would be expected behaviour. The global menus need to work no matter what, especially since many programs have moved core functionality to these menus. I think this does need a bug report. I've had a quick peruse of gnome bugzilla and haven't found any similar reports so far.
Last edited by Chazza (2014-05-09 10:52:40)
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Thank you for your help. I filed a Gnome bug report.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729990
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