18.04 = circular login problem on system freeze

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 20.07.2018, 03:13 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> If this...
> 
> sudo -u username dbus-launch gsettings set
> org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top false
> 
> ...shouldn't work, this...
> 
> HOME_BAK=$HOME
> HOME="/home/username"
> sudo -u username gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-
> dock show-apps-at-top false
> HOME=$HOME_BAK
> 
> ...should work.
> 

nope ...

$ man gsettings |grep Note 
       Note that gsettings needs a D-Bus session bus connection to
write changes to the dconf database.


this would only work if "username" would have an actually running
session *and* if the calling user would have permission to actually
connect to that running session dbus ...

ciao
	oli
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