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gconf package

  1. Bug #290647
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 290647

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Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch) wrote :

The aforementioned workaround needs to have an appropriate XAUTHORITY environment variable defined.

To sudo without doing this (e.g., from a command line process), try something like the following:

# assumes the $USER and $HOME directories are defined somehow
DBUS_SESSION=$(grep -v "^#" $HOME/.dbus/session-bus/`cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`-0)
sudo -u $USER $DBUS_SESSION gconftool-2 --type string --set /system/proxy/mode manual