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Ravexina
Asked: 2014-11-06 14:24:56 +0800 CST

Ugly GUI for appliction under root

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When I start a program with root privilege the GUI looks like win98 and applications like: gparted, bum, gufw, mousepad looks ugly.

My themes are in /usr/share/theme so it doesn't matter if I make a link to .theme directory for root user, however I already done this and it doesn't worked.

I also created a link to gtk-3 configuration in /root directory, even coping all config files (gtk2, gtk3, etc) to /root directory doesn't makes any different.

My theme is Adwaita, as you know it's supports both gtk-2 and gtk-3.

The command I use to run applications that I mentioned before is (e.g. gkso bum, gksu gparted from openbox menu or gmrun).

I tried sudo gparted, sudo bum, sudo mousepad, from terminal and it's seems everyting is okay when I use sudo.

but gksu doesn't work properly and for gufw sudo does not work too.

i also tried gparted-pkexec, sudo gparted-pkexec, gksu gparted-pkexec and no difference, but as I saied before sudo gparted works fine.

how can I get make gksu work properly?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Okay, I fixed the problem using:

    gksu lxappearance

    then I set Adwaita as default theme for root user, everything works fine know.

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