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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: Synaptic doesn't respect gnome preferences

Thanks for your bugreport.

The problem here is that synaptic runs as root (via sudo/gksudo) whereas the
toolsbar settings are part of the users gconf settings. When synaptic runs as
root it has no access to the users gconf settings.