Re: meld stopped working when run as root

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2009-10-07, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
>> On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:

>>> I used to use meld regularly on different versions of system
>>> config files (that are only readble by root). ??However,
>>> sometime recently meld stopped working when run as root:
>
> Sorry - meant to respond to this. There haven't been any changes to
> Meld that should change running as root. See below.
[...]
> I'm guessing you're seeing
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555745 (in gconf)

That looks like it might be it.  Meld is probably the only GTK
program I ever run as root.

> though why it only just started happening I have no idea.
> Anyway, the 'su -' workaround seems to work.

Thanks, I'll try that.

> Unless Gentoo has patched one in, Meld doesn't support a 'no
> Gnome' mode. Having said that, if Meld fails to find gconf, it
> will use python's configparser configuration backend instead.
> If you really don't want gconf at all, you can change the
> import logic at the end of prefs.py.

I'll take a look at that as well.

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