Comment 85 for bug 328575

Huh.. no it's not okay to turn it into a guide.. People have been using gnome-terminal as root for years. Lecturing them on the dangerousity of their ways is just an excuse not to fix the bug.

I do not mean to attack you personally, but I just hate it when people say "why do you do that anyway?" or "it's much better if you do it the other way" when there is a real bug.

While I understand Ubuntu is targeted at the general public (including very, very dumb users), well not only dumb users use it, I guess. Those should have the freedom to launch gnome-terminal as root, knowing and accepting the risk.

As for me, I have turned to x11-terms/terminal (gentoo package terminology), which is the xfce terminal emulator. It has nearly all features from gnome-terminal, without the wont-launch-as-root bug. But I seriously hope this bug is fixed upstream in gnome-terminal.

Additionally, running gnome-settings-daemon is not always an acceptable workaround, since it messes up with gtk+ themes, desktop background, etc. Gnome is a trustworthy partner, but an invasive ex. (ie. when you just want to "stay friends" = just run gnome applications)

As a conclusion, well, I guess a guide is better than nothing. Thanks for that effort already.