Thunar in Fedora 18 and Fedora Rawhide.

[David]

In Fedora 18 when opening the Terminal and becoming 'root' running
Thunar from the CL opens Thunar with a warning that 'you' are running it
as 'root'.

In Fedora Rawhide (to be Fedora 19) when opening the Terminal and
becoming 'root' running Thunar from the CL fails with a message "thunar:
cannot open display:"

What has been changed and how to change it back?
-- 

  David

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:48:17 -0500
David <dgboles(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  In Fedora 18 when opening the Terminal and becoming 'root'
> running
>  Thunar from the CL opens Thunar with a warning that 'you' are running
>  it as 'root'.
>  
>  In Fedora Rawhide (to be Fedora 19) when opening the Terminal and
>  becoming 'root' running Thunar from the CL fails with a message
>  "thunar: cannot open display:"
>  
>  What has been changed and how to change it back? 
It has the first behavior here under rawhide. 

How are you becoming root?

try 'sudo -i' ?

kevin

[David]

On 2/1/2013 4:19 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:48:17 -0500
>  David <dgboles(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> > In Fedora 18 when opening the Terminal and becoming 'root' running
> > Thunar from the CL opens Thunar with a warning that 'you' are running
> > it as 'root'.
> >
> > In Fedora Rawhide (to be Fedora 19) when opening the Terminal and
> > becoming 'root' running Thunar from the CL fails with a message
> > "thunar: cannot open display:"
> >
> > What has been changed and how to change it back?
>  
>  It has the first behavior here under rawhide. 
>  
>  How are you becoming root?
>  
>  try 'sudo -i' ?
>  
>  kevin 

Same way on both installs.


as user (me)

su -  <enter>

Password: ********  <enter>

root

thunar&   or plain   thunar  <enter>

The Rawhide is a Fedora 16 that I changed to Rawhide that would have
been Fedora 17 to a Rawhide that would have been Fedora 18 to the
Rawhide that will be Fedora 19.


Perhaps I need a fresh install?
-- 

  David

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:30:23 -0500
David <dgboles(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Same way on both installs.
>  
>  
>  as user (me)
>  
>  su -  <enter>
>  
>  Password: ********  <enter>
>  
>  root
>  
>  thunar&   or plain   thunar  <enter>
>  
>  The Rawhide is a Fedora 16 that I changed to Rawhide that would have
>  been Fedora 17 to a Rawhide that would have been Fedora 18 to the
>  Rawhide that will be Fedora 19.
>  
>  
>  Perhaps I need a fresh install? 
I can't think of what would break this off hand. 

It works fine here on my rawhide machine (installed as f18 and upgraded
to rawhide)

kevin

[David]

On 2/2/2013 10:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:30:23 -0500
>  David <dgboles(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> > Same way on both installs.
> >
> >
> > as user (me)
> >
> > su -  <enter>
> >
> > Password: ********  <enter>
> >
> > root
> >
> > thunar&   or plain   thunar  <enter>
> >
> > The Rawhide is a Fedora 16 that I changed to Rawhide that would have
> > been Fedora 17 to a Rawhide that would have been Fedora 18 to the
> > Rawhide that will be Fedora 19.
> >
> >
> > Perhaps I need a fresh install?
>  
>  I can't think of what would break this off hand. 
>  
>  It works fine here on my rawhide machine (installed as f18 and upgraded
>  to rawhide)
>  
>  kevin 

Thanks Kevin. I have yet to resolve this Thunar problem. And it appears
that I will not. A fresh install of a Rawhide Kfce nightly snapshot does
not appear to like my Nvidia card. I get the 'black screen of death'.
And an update from a working just fine Fedora 18 Xfce to Rawhide also
gives me that same 'black screen of death' so I don't know if the
problems still exists for since I can only see the black screen.  :-)

Which makes me curious if a 'real' release update from Fedora 18 to
Fedora 19 when it is released will fail also.

Something to ponder.

-- 

  David

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:03:18AM -0500, David wrote:
>  
>  Thanks Kevin. I have yet to resolve this Thunar problem. And it appears
>  that I will not. A fresh install of a Rawhide Kfce nightly snapshot does
>  not appear to like my Nvidia card. I get the 'black screen of death'.
>  And an update from a working just fine Fedora 18 Xfce to Rawhide also
>  gives me that same 'black screen of death' so I don't know if the
>  problems still exists for since I can only see the black screen.  :-)
>   
Have you looked at your xauth file?  It should be given by your
$XAUTHORITY environment variable.  In the past I have encountered
similar issues with other gui programs when for some reason the xauth
file was not readable (or couldn't be created if there wasn't any).

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

[David]

On 2/4/2013 8:22 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>  On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:03:18AM -0500, David wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Kevin. I have yet to resolve this Thunar problem. And it appears
> > that I will not. A fresh install of a Rawhide Kfce nightly snapshot does
> > not appear to like my Nvidia card. I get the 'black screen of death'.
> > And an update from a working just fine Fedora 18 Xfce to Rawhide also
> > gives me that same 'black screen of death' so I don't know if the
> > problems still exists for since I can only see the black screen.  :-)
> >
>  
>  Have you looked at your xauth file?  It should be given by your
>  $XAUTHORITY environment variable.  In the past I have encountered
>  similar issues with other gui programs when for some reason the xauth
>  file was not readable (or couldn't be created if there wasn't any).
>  
>  Hope this helps,
>   

Actually It was a corrupted for some reason. Deleting it caused a new one
to be made which solved this.

Thank you for the suggestion.
-- 

  David