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Re: [trinity-users] YaST2 launch failure

From: Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:03:33 -0600
On Monday 25 February 2013 14:53:39 Leslie Turriff wrote:
> 	Now that I've gotten Trinity working on my OpenSuSE 12.2 system, I find
> that starting YaST from the menu no longer works.  The command string in
> the Application tab of the button configuration
> is "/usr/bin/xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2".  When I cut/paste that into konsole
> and run it I get this message:
> xdg-su: no graphical method available for invoking '/sbin/yast2' as 'root'
> which means nothing at all to me. :-)
> 	Any suggestions?

	Looks like this is an OpenSuSE issue, not a Trinity one:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2012-09/msg00277.html

	I'm not sure that I completely understand their patch.  When I echo 
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP I get nothing back, so it looks like it won't work for 
Trinity (?).

Leslie