[panel] Programs ran as root do not use global menu
Bug #722911 reported by
Rod Davis
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #592842: appmenu doesn't work with apps run as sudo root.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| unity-2d |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Any program ran as root does not use the global menu. Instead, it shows its menu below where it should be. I'm not sure if this was intended to make the distinction between root and non-root windows, but I feel that this is a bug. Screenshot attached.
Revision history for this message
| Rod Davis (ahylianhuman) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity-2d: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity-2d: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| summary: |
- Programs ran as root do not use global menu + [panel] Programs ran as root do not use global menu |
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Hi Rod Davis
unity-2d:
Installed: 0.4-0ubuntu1~bzr405
Candidate: 0.4-0ubuntu1~bzr405
Version table:
*** 0.4-0ubuntu1~bzr405 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
I can confirm that when using the package unity-2d on Ubuntu 10.10 using the steps provided by Rod Davis that I can reproduce the bug. Therefore I have set this bug to confirmed.
To reproduce this bug I ran.
sudo nautilus
Andy