Bug#577190: gedit doesn't allow preferences change

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 10 avril 2010 à 08:47 -0300, Willian Gustavo Veiga a écrit : 
> When I run gedit in terminal as root, preferences change isn't allowed. Every
> preferences are disabled.  How to reproduce that: - Open a terminal - su -
> gedit - edit -> preferences  Then I receive a lot of errors like that:
> "(gedit:5390): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session
> manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed  Erro do GConf:
> Falha ao contatar o servidor de configuração; algumas das causas possíveis
> são: necessidade de habilitar rede TCP/IP no ORBit ou existência de arquivos
> de bloqueio deixados para trás no NFS devido a algum um erro do sistema. Para
> mais informações consulte: http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/.

You shouldn’t run gedit as root. If you really need to, you should use
gksu rather than su.

Cheers,
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