On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:50 +0100, Dave S wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 12:40, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Sunday 02 July 2006 09:09, Dave S wrote: > > > < HOME = /root > > > --- > > > > > > > HOME = /home/vanda > > > > This is only a theory but could it be that one reads config files in /root > > and the other in /home/vanda? > > The only related config I can find is for /etc/gksu.conf and thats not user > dependent. I cant find any config relevent in /root or /home/vanda
you'll probably find its a gnome (or kde) theme that is causing the issue, and the gnome (or kde) themes are stored in $HOME. Since you usually don't log in graphically as root (which is usually good) you don't have theme folders set up in root's home... am I making sense?! try running `visudo` and commenting out the line: Defaults env_reset I don't know if gksudo uses this file, but if it does, your problem should go away... If it does go away, then uncomment the line and do something better like: Defaults:yourname env_keep-=TERMCAP HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list