<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Vlad Orlov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:monsta@inbox.ru" target="_blank">monsta@inbox.ru</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Is su actually used for running graphical apps?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>In my case, I either accidentally typed into an su window, or possibly ran the gconf editor as root, for some possibly good or bad reason, possibly having to do with xdm, gdm whateverdm, or possibly some intentional or unintentional debugging of audio or video playback. This is the "shit happens" category, and based on the rate of reports streaming in, "shit happens" every now and then for everyone. If it happened a lot, the problem would be fixed. If it happened very rarely, there would be no heat.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
There's also this problem... no one still volunteered to actually help fixing<br>
su or gksu/libgksu.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> "fixing" su could have very long-running reprecussions: it is a 40-year-old utility, and I know for a fact that there are people out there who run 40-year-old shell scripts (I have a friend who works at a company that specializes in porting ancient, undocumented code to modern systems.) If you "fix" it, the various vendors (red-hat, ubuntu, debian) will very slowly start accumulating bug reports related to the change. These reports will arrive at the rate of a few a year, for a decade (similar to the rate of reporting on this bug-- which is now 3-4 years old, and gets a new complaint every now and then). The knee-jerk reaction will be to undo whatever the "fixes" were. So the volunteer needs to not only fix the problem, update the man page, etc. but then be persistent for many years. That's hard.</div><div><br></div><div>--linas</div></div></div></div>