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Bug 729990 - Application Menu doesn't work when launching apps with sudo
Application Menu doesn't work when launching apps with sudo
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 695675
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-05-12 08:18 UTC by Ulukai
Modified: 2014-05-12 08:24 UTC
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Description Ulukai 2014-05-12 08:18:47 UTC 
The Application Menu in the top bar of Gnome-Shell doesn't work when opening apps from a terminal using sudo or gksu. The options that should be displayed in the application menu are also not shown in the normal menus, like when opening Gnome 3 apps in non-Gnome 3 environments. 

It is found that the Application Menu works when launching the program with the command su -c.

This is tested on a Gnome-Shell 3.12.1 install on 64-bit Arch Linux.

Thread on the Arch Linux forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1413778
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2014-05-12 08:24:34 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 695675 ***