gksudo doesn't truncate long command line, so runs off the edge of the screen

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

To reproduce:-

Have a bunch of text files in a folder
Run gedit under gksudo to open lots of them

e.g.

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
gusudo gedit *.list

Observe a giant dialog which goes off the edge of the screen.

See photo.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gksu 2.0.2-6ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.4-generic 3.8.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 18 10:49:35 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-29 (202 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gksu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-18 (0 days ago)

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Confirm, although it's rather hard to reproduce. I had to resort to:

gksudo ls /usr/bin/*

because I don't have enough text files in one directory.