Firestarter fails to launch when run from Applications menu
Bug #34225 reported by
Stuart Bishop
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firestarter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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MOTU | ||
Bug Description
Firestarter refuses to start up, reporting that it is unable to open the display. I believe this is because the DISPLAY environment variable is being stripped by gksudo.
A workaround is to run gksudo env DISPLAY=:0 firestarter instead.
| Changed in firestarter: | |
| assignee: | nobody → motu |
Revision history for this message
| Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote Firestarter starts fine when run from Applications menu | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in firestarter: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Committed |
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| Loic Pefferkorn (loic) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in firestarter: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Firestarter starts fine when run from Applications menu on my Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) system with backported gksu 1.3.6-1ubuntu7 package.
But one problem with desktop launcher is still not solved firestarter.desktop file still uses gksudo instead of gksu, in firestarter.desktop should be:
gksu /usr/sbin/
This is because gksu package is in sudo mode as default in ubuntu, look at bug #30057 for more info