<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 7:58 PM, Jordan <florentior@gmail.com> wrote: Hi som, > >You might want to run a distribution upgrade through apt-get. Some bugs for gtk might have been fixed since you have last upgraded. > >Paste into the terminal, > >sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade dist-upgrade && synaptic > >If synaptic does not immediately run after the script completes, your kernel might be a bit stale. > >To update the kernel, paste > >sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic && sudo apt-get -y autoremove && synaptic i usually stay up-to-date with the updates. however, i will give your suggestion a try and let the list know. >By the way, unless you have a slower connection, it's always a good > idea to start every apt-get session with 'sudo apt-get update'. unfortunately, i have a really slow connection! > On Wednesday, 19 February 2014 12:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > You should use gksudo instead of sudo. However, I often run synaptic > after su or sudo -i in a terminal emulation and also don't use gksudo, > but I wonder why you don't use gksudo for a launcher. the launcher was actually using the "synaptic-pkexec" command. irrespective of the command used ("(gk)sudo" or "synaptic-pkexec"), the output was same. ie, "(synaptic:4147): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkNotebook 0xb265d0 is mapped but visible child GtkLabel 0xb3e1b0 is not mapped" > How do you setup sudo? Does it e.g. expect a password? yes > What kind of launcher did you generate? > > Could please post the launcher file, by > cat ~/.config/xfce4/panel/[search with e.g. Thunar for the complete path > to the launcher file], e.g. here is the launcher file - [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Synaptic Package Manager Comment=Install, remove and upgrade software packages Exec=synaptic-pkexec Icon=synaptic Path= Terminal=false StartupNotify=false regards, som</div></body></html>