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Bug 737713 - unable to access application menu of application running as another user
unable to access application menu of application running as another user
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 695675
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-10-01 11:32 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2015-03-07 02:44 UTC
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2014-10-01 11:32:43 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open gnome-system-log (or any other application running with a user id different from the one of your gnome-shell session)
2. Try to access the application menu

Expected result:
Application menu should open as it would on any other application

What happens:
No application menu shown. Menu is completely inaccessible.
Comment 1 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2014-10-01 12:49:33 UTC 
Why are you running gnome-system-log as a different user?
Comment 2 Christian Stadelmann 2014-10-01 13:12:38 UTC 
That's the default in Fedora (at least F21 Alpha). Running gnome-system-log from gnome-shell will ask for a password (higher privileges). Then it will start the application /usr/bin/logview as user root.
Comment 3 Stuart Axon 2014-12-22 13:58:17 UTC 
Seems similar to 695675
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2015-03-07 02:44:04 UTC 
(In reply to Stuart Axon from comment #3)
> Seems similar to 695675

Indeed.

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