[Gimp-user] GIMP opens in superuser mode

[Leslie Katz <lesliek mymts net>]

On 2018-04-05 05:06 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Leslie Katz <lesliek mymts net 
> <mailto:lesliek mymts net>> wrote:
>
>     Apologies. I couldn't figure out how to reply directly to my own
>     earlier message, so I'm doing so by a fresh post with the same
>     title as my original post, in case anyone should be helped by my
>     reply.
>
>     The GIMP says in its title bar that it's running in superuser
>     mode, but I've now found that it really isn't. Its wrongly saying
>     so is a function of its having been installed through flatpak.
>
>
> I saw in your other email that you use Ubuntu. Is it a feature of 
> Ubuntu to tell when a software is run as superuser?
I'm not sure, but I did notice by chance today that the title bar of a 
graphical app that I was running did say that I was running the app as 
superuser when I'd deliberately chosen to open it in that way. That 
makes me assume that the title bar will always say so when it's the case 
(and also sometimes when it isn't).
> In any case, I have no idea about this issue. Does that say the same 
> thing with other flatpak-installed software or only GIMP?
GIMP is the only app I've ever installed via flatpak, but it was this 
(https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/301) that suggested that 
the same false statement would appear with any flatpak-installed app.

Maybe I should add that, when I opened GIMP and then checked via a 
separate app to see who was said to be running it, it was said to be 
leslie, not root. Also, I edited an image in GIMP and then saved it. I 
then looked at the permissions attached to the saved edited image and 
saw that leslie was the owner, not root.

All the best,

Leslie
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