[Gambas-user] Access global variable from other .class

[Jussi Lahtinen]

OK, I'm stupid.
Desktop.ScreenSaver.Activate() doesn't do anything because I have disabled
screensaver,
so the blank screen I see after 6 min idle, is actually monitor turning off.

I will investigate what is wrong with xdg-su...

Jussi




On 15 June 2012 23:49, tobi <tobiasboege01 at ...1601...> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> > > If I remember correctly, you can even save more work by using
> gb.desktop,
> > > Desktop.RunAsRoot() which
> > > builds on top of the portland xdg scripts.
> > >
> >
> > Before writing anything I should always check what gb.desktop contains...
> >
> > But there seems to be bugs.
> >
> > I tried 'Desktop.RunAsRoot("whoami")'.
> > All I got is: " xdg-su: no graphical method available for invoking
> 'whoami'
> > as 'root'"
> >
> > I have gksudo installed ( in /usr/bin/gksudo ) and working.
> > So perhaps Gambas ships broken version of this script..?
> >
> > Also "xdg-screensaver activate" doesn't work
> (Desktop.ScreenSaver.Activate).
> > Either the version of that script already installed to my system (xdg-su
> > wasn't installed at all).
> >
> > Xubuntu 12.04 64 bit.
> > Screensaver in use is XScreenSaver 5.15, and GKsu is version 2.0.2.
> >
> > Jussi
> >
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> Yes, I was surprised, too, when I saw lately how gb.desktop grew since I
> last had a look at it.
> There seem to be a lot of people who want to run programs as root, it's
> always the same problem to
> solve...
>
> I don't know about the scripts, I personally didn't need them so far but
> they are distributed in the
> gb.desktop/src/gb.desktop/xdg-utils/ directory in the source tree. If
> there is a bug, you might be
> able to spot it yourself - at least xdg-su seems not really complicated,
> even to me who is not used
> to shell scripting to that extend.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
>
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