[Bug 785693] Re: lshw-gtk menu entry is inoperative

[justin]

I'm not sure if, in my case, its a bug or missing dependency. I am using Xubuntu 14.04 (GNOME 3.8.4, Kernel 3.13.0-24-generic, GCC 4.8, Xorg 1.15.1). However, when I did what Polimatio suggested, it worked -- changing "su-to-root -X -c lshw-gtk" to "gksudo lshw-gtk. 
I'm sorry if my comment isn't formatted correctly, as I am still very new to launchpad. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated!

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Title:
  lshw-gtk menu entry is inoperative

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lshw

  I installed lshw-gtk ("Hardware Lister") from the Ubuntu Software
  Center, but the resulting menu entry in the System -> Preferences menu
  does not work. When you select it you get an Error dialog with the
  message "Could not launch 'Hardware Lister' Failed to execute child
  process "su-to-root" (No such file or directory)".

  Looks to me like it is missing a dependency.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: lshw-gtk 02.15-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May 20 12:39:15 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  SourcePackage: lshw
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (19 days ago)

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