Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, just opened a terminal, sued, and opened gedit and locked hard.
This was working nicely before I did all that tweaking. Perhaps one of the extensions or how do I look for this. It is too painful to test...
robert.
ouch.
do you have vi on the system. do you get the same hard lock when you use vi?
what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user?
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, just opened a terminal, sued, and opened gedit and locked hard.
This was working nicely before I did all that tweaking. Perhaps one of the extensions or how do I look for this. It is too painful to test...
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On 12/26/2013 10:16 AM, bruce wrote:
robert.
ouch.
do you have vi on the system. do you get the same hard lock when you use vi?
Yes. I fell back to vi. Been using vi for 20+ years. Sigh.
what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user?
Works fine as me. Only locks as root.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, just opened a terminal, sued, and opened gedit and locked hard.
This was working nicely before I did all that tweaking. Perhaps one of the extensions or how do I look for this. It is too painful to test...
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:51:07AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 12/26/2013 10:16 AM, bruce wrote:
what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user?
Works fine as me. Only locks as root.
Maybe it is a problem with the .Xauthority file? You could test with an editor that has both terminal only, gui modes. Emacs is the only one I know of. Try starting it as emacs, if it faces the same problem it should fallback to no-window mode.
In any case, I think it is considered good practice to not use gui applications as root. I would stick to vim/emacs -nw/nano etc.
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:11:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, just opened a terminal, sued, and opened gedit and locked hard.
This was working nicely before I did all that tweaking. Perhaps one of the extensions or how do I look for this. It is too painful to test...
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