Created attachment 806329 [details] screenshot Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.8.4-2.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login gnome as an ordinary user 2. open a terminal 3. sudo su 4. gedit 5. click the button near "Activities" as shown in the attachment Actual results: Hangs Expected results: menu pop up Additional info:
The underlying problem is that permissions of the mmapped dconf database are changed behind our/dconf's back. Possible fixes would be to let "su" modify XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as well, or be more cautious in dconf when updating permissions. However it's not an issue we can easily work around in gnome-shell, and (in my opinion) we shouldn't in any case.
I ran into this or a similar problem in F19. Using beesu as per the following bug report solved the problem there. Haven't been able to try it yet in F20 as I do not have access to the internet with my Fedora box ATM to install beesu. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972600 There are several issues in the bug report. See in particular comment #14 and #23.
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