Bug 703410

Summary: gedit doesn't start from root-console
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Rolle <rolle.hoffmann>
Component: geditAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: rolle.hoffmann, rstrode, skr
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Description Rolle 2011-05-10 09:47:35 UTC
Description of problem:
When I opened a terminal and changed to root-user (su). Now I want to start gedit from the console, it doesn't worked. It aborted with an error-message.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15, Gnome 3.0

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start terminal
2. change user to root with 'su'
3. type 'gedit'
  
Actual results:
gedit fails to start

Expected results:
gedit starts and opened the gedit-Window

Additional info:
It doesn't work for the whole Fedora 14-Lifetime until now (Fedora 15 Beta-Time).
For me it is annoying, cause I tried with that steps to edit grub.conf, fstab, ...

Comment 1 Sebastian Krämer 2011-07-24 09:43:39 UTC
Likeli duplicate of #703409 (same thing w/ F14) and also #705892 (?)

Comment 2 Rolle 2011-10-21 08:10:11 UTC
This bug is until now unresolved. Also the newest Fedora 16 prerelease has this bug. In Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 works this perfectly.

Comment 3 Sebastian Krämer 2012-05-03 18:40:39 UTC
It's possible for me to start 'leafpad' (xfce editor) from root console (Terminal + 'su -') in F17 Beta. Maybe you want to re-check?

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has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is 
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longer maintained.  At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version'
of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX.

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