Hi!
I connect to my openSuse 12.1 remotely from win7 through tightVNC. when i launch anything that requires root password in gnome, it silently doesn’t launch. In IceWM i get this error message
(y2base:4506): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: ::1:1
i’ve tried to google it, but haven’t found anything. is it a bug? if so, does anyone know a workaround for it?
On 2011-11-19 02:36, baltic8 wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> I connect to my openSuse 12.1 remotely from win7 through tightVNC. when
> i launch anything that requires root password in gnome, it silently
> doesn’t launch. In IceWM i get this error message
> (y2base:4506): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: ::1:1
I’m not sure if you are attempting to open a graphical session as root, or
as user and then trying to open an application as root.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 11/19/2011 02:48 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I’m not sure if you are attempting to open a graphical session as root, or
> as user and then trying to open an application as root.
i’m not sure either, so let me say to the OP: do not log into gnome as
root…
but, once logged in as a normal user (via VNC or other), then to launch
an application (say nautilus) as root type the following into a non-root
terminal/console/xterm (or in a alt+F2 run command popup inside gnome)
gnomesu nautilus
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Hi!
I’ve tried both actually. root and user. Doesn’t work either way.
I’ve removed the horrible thing. Wasted 2 nights on it, trying to make it work. With win7 i’ve got everything working in an hour, despite I’ve never done it before.
Thanks for the help anyway.
P.S. I wonder do they ever test their “releases” at all?
> I’ve removed the horrible thing.
hahahahahaha you removed the “horrible thing” but kept Win7, what a
belly laugh…
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On 2011-11-19 17:56, baltic8 wrote:
> P.S. I wonder do they ever test their “releases” at all?
By people like you. If you don’t test it and report in bugzilla, nobody
will do it. This is community, you are expected to do things for us.
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Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-11-19 17:56, baltic8 wrote:
> P.S. I wonder do they ever test their “releases” at all?
It could also be a problem with tightVNC.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I didn’t keep it. I installed it. See, I just wanted a fileserver working 24/7 with remote access to it and got a small atom based PC for this. Nothing fancy. Yet, even those simple things don’t work well on suse. I’ve wasted 2 nights on this. With win7 i made it up and running in just about an hour with a little help from google. The quality of the open source operating system is awful. And if I do my job like this, I’d rather be ashamed than have a belly laugh.
Cheers!
I’ve actually filed a few detailed bugs about the problems I’ve encountered. With screenshots and all the info I was able to get. Though I don’t think it’s going to help at all, seeing the attitude of “the community”
I also tried UltraVNC. It didn’t work at all. I wasnt able to connect tosuse machine. Just black screen and a cross instead of the cursor.
Yeah! That’s what I was expecting, talking about community attitude. After I’ve reported a bug, the guy tried to reproduce it in a different version of suse and closed it. Saying everything works.
On 2011-11-19 20:06, baltic8 wrote:
> encountered. With screenshots and all the info I was able to get. Though
> I don’t think it’s going to help at all, seeing the attitude of “the
> community”
You are that community. I don’t see much good in your attitude.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-11-21 13:16, baltic8 wrote:
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> Yeah! ‘That’s what I was expecting’
> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731359#c4), talking about
> community attitude. After I’ve reported a bug, the guy tried to
> reproduce it in a different version of suse and closed it. Saying
> everything works.
Then reopen, and say why. Fight your bug!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I’m not a M$ lover by any stretch, but the fact is Linux implementations need to co-exist with M$ systems, and Gnome not working with VNC is a problem for those of us in mixed environments. The VNC issue with Gnome seems to go all the way back to v2.30.2. Gnome has now gone through at least two upgrades, and you’d have thought the problems would have been fixed by now what with the bug reports and all of the postings on the forums. I just upgraded my test system to 12.1 with Gnome 3 and was badly disappointed. I’m going back to 11.3 with the fixed version of 2.30.2 until I can build a box with KDE and try it out. It might be time to leave Gnome behind.
On 2011-11-23 17:06, pjolson wrote:
> and you’d have thought the problems
> would have been fixed by now what with the bug reports and all of the
> postings on the forums.
The devs do not read the forums, and I haven’t seen a bugzilla mentioned
here till now (no, the bug baltic8 mentioned is not about this)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-11-21 13:33, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-11-21 13:16, baltic8 wrote:
>>
>> Yeah! ‘That’s what I was expecting’
>> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731359#c4), talking about
>> community attitude. After I’ve reported a bug, the guy tried to
>> reproduce it in a different version of suse and closed it. Saying
>> everything works.
>
> Then reopen, and say why. Fight your bug!
I took a look that report. It is badly filled. No real, reliable info on
what he is doing and how it is failing. The community part that fills the
report does it badly. Don’t blame the part of the community that tries to
solve it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)