[users] Leaf pad and gksu

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Hi All,

I am not finding a place to report this minor bug at
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/,
so please forgive me if I am reporting this in the wrong place:

$ yum whatprovides leafpad
...
leafpad-0.8.9-1.el5.rf.i386 : Simple graphical text editor
Repo : rpmforge


If I run Leafpad from the command line as root, it works perfectly.

If I run Leafpad from gksu, I get a gray box, no pull down menus, nothing.

gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad"

The hang is removed if you give leaf pad a parameter:
gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad X"

But, the top of the window gets labeled "X"

The following work around gives "untitled" on the top:

gksu -u root "echo "" | /usr/bin/leafpad"

I do not have this problem running other programs with gksu.
Have reproduces this under CentOS 5.6 32 bit and SL6 64 bit.

Many thanks,
-T

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All,
I am not finding a place to report this minor bug at
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/,
$ yum whatprovides leafpad
...
leafpad-0.8.9-1.el5.rf.i386 : Simple graphical text editor
Repo : rpmforge
If I run Leafpad from the command line as root, it works perfectly.
If I run Leafpad from gksu, I get a gray box, no pull down menus, nothing.
gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad"
gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad X"
But, the top of the window gets labeled "X"
gksu -u root "echo "" | /usr/bin/leafpad"
I do not have this problem running other programs with gksu.
Have reproduces this under CentOS 5.6 32 bit and SL6 64 bit.
Many thanks,
-T

Interesting:

$ kdesu -u root -c "/usr/bin/leafpad"

Works fine. Wonder if the problem is in gksu?

-T

$ kdesu --version
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1 Red Hat
KDE su: 1.0

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Hi All,

I am not finding a place to report this minor bug at
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/,
so please forgive me if I am reporting this in the wrong place:

$ yum whatprovides leafpad
...
leafpad-0.8.9-1.el5.rf.i386 : Simple graphical text editor
Repo : rpmforge


If I run Leafpad from the command line as root, it works perfectly.

If I run Leafpad from gksu, I get a gray box, no pull down menus, nothing.

gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad"

The hang is removed if you give leaf pad a parameter:
gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad X"

But, the top of the window gets labeled "X"

The following work around gives "untitled" on the top:

gksu -u root "echo "" | /usr/bin/leafpad"

I do not have this problem running other programs with gksu.
Have reproduces this under CentOS 5.6 32 bit and SL6 64 bit.

Many thanks,
-T

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All,
I am not finding a place to report this minor bug at
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/,
$ yum whatprovides leafpad
...
leafpad-0.8.9-1.el5.rf.i386 : Simple graphical text editor
Repo : rpmforge
If I run Leafpad from the command line as root, it works perfectly.
If I run Leafpad from gksu, I get a gray box, no pull down menus, nothing.
gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad"
gksu -u root "/usr/bin/leafpad X"
But, the top of the window gets labeled "X"
gksu -u root "echo "" | /usr/bin/leafpad"
I do not have this problem running other programs with gksu.
Have reproduces this under CentOS 5.6 32 bit and SL6 64 bit.
Many thanks,
-T

Interesting:

$ kdesu -u root -c "/usr/bin/leafpad"

Works fine. Wonder if the problem is in gksu?

-T

$ kdesu --version
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1 Red Hat
KDE su: 1.0