Bug 822950 - Problems when launching nautilus from terminal as root
Summary: Problems when launching nautilus from terminal as root
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-18 15:24 UTC by Ruben Roy
Modified: 2015-03-03 23:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-05-18 16:30:05 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Ruben Roy 2012-05-18 15:24:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
When launching nautilus from gnome terminal as root:
1. The date/time indicator at the middle of the taskbar changes to "DAY HH:MM" from the full date and time which had been configured using gnome tweak tool
2. Taps using the touchpad are not recognized. However moving the pointer is possible. Also the buttons near the touchpad work without problems
3. Problem 2 is solved when running the command "synclient TapButton1=1". But it reappears after it goes into suspend mode.
4. Logging out and logging in solves problems 1 and 2 but they can be reproduced again



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gnome terminal
2. run "su - -c nautilus"
Comment 1 Tomáš Bžatek 2012-05-18 16:30:05 UTC 
Please don't run Gnome apps as root, there are many issues around and it's generally unsupported (mostly due to d-bus session bus limitations).

Do these issues appear only when running as root or even as normal user?
Comment 2 Ruben Roy 2012-05-18 19:27:14 UTC 
Everything works as it should when running as a normal user.
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