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kdesudo package

  1. Bug #205201
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 205201

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Jörg Höhle (joerg-cyril-hoehle) wrote : Re: [Hardy] The gtk-qt-engine doesn't work while staring applications as another user

It appears that explicitly setting the variable
# export GTK2_RC_FILES=/root/.gtkrc-2.0-kde:/root/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
is enough to make the problem disappear (on my system) for synaptic and wireshark.

If this variable is unset, Synaptic looks "ugly". I think that's a bug as I'd expect applications to find their defaults without the help of environment variables (and the default should not look ugly).

There's also GTK_RC_FILES, but I don't know what application uses this variable.

I strongly disrecommend symlink'ing any files from your regular $HOME to root's home, or vice-versa.

Prior to this, I've set root's "use my KDE style in GTK applications" via
#kcmshell kcmgtk
as was recommended somewhere -- and verified that it modified, /root/..., not my /home/... (cf. the ugly sudo issue).