Fonts not displayed correctly using sudo

ahh · 01-30-2006, 02:51 PM

Gentoo
Gnome 2.12
GTK+ 2.8.8
sudo 1.6.8_p9
xorg 6.8.2-r6

I have a user set up that I use for internet related activities, lets call him webuser.

So, when I browse the web I invoke my web browser with

Code:

sudo -H webuser /usr/bin/galeon

The problem is the theme and fonts are wrong.

If I log in as webuser the theme and fonts are OK.

Does anyone know how this can be remedied?

Cheers.

trickykid · 01-30-2006, 03:00 PM

When invoking this to run as the other user, it's not going to use your current users settings and configurations. Login directly as the webuser and configure it how you like, then try launching as the webuser once again.

ahh · 01-31-2006, 01:16 AM

Thanks for the reply, but this is what's not happening. If I log in as webuser the fonts and theme are displayed as I set them, but if I log in as another user and sudo -H webuser the fonts and theme are wrong.

More specifically, a different font is displayed and it is not antialiased, and the theme is correct except that the menu items are highlighted in a different colour.

Weird.

ahh · 02-04-2006, 05:46 AM

I've solved the problem.

Both users have a theme with the same name, but the details are different. It appears Gnome got confused because of this. I made sure that themes with the same name had the same details and everything works fine.