(SOLVED..sort of) : Desktop launcher as root
Frank McCormick
fmccormick at videotron.ca
Mon May 1 02:33:51 UTC 2006
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On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:46:52 +1000
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:22:44 -0400
> Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > I took Peter Garrets suggestion of a simple "sudo mc"...went into the config editor, changed the default
> > terminal to rxvt-unicode and it now works, but with a small window which has to be resized. But it works.
>
> You can set the terminal size by specifying a different font or geometry.
> For instance
>
> urxvt -ls -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14"
>
Yup, that I know, what I didn't think about was a wrapper script to solve the entire problem rather than trying to work around the launcher shortcomings. Thanks for jogging my brain. It's been a long day :)
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Cheers
Frank
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