[KLUG Members] When Launching Apps from a terminal

[Green Proc]

adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:
>> paul:/home/twedad# gnome-system-monitor
>> (gnome-system-monitor:1730): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to
>> session manager:
>> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
>> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
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> Based upon your prompt I suspect you su'd and then tried to run the app?

Yes, I did a 'sudo su' and then ran the command to avoid typing my root
password, because the gnome-system-monitor when launched from the gnome
menu askes for root privelidges of course.  Is this a benign error?  Or
do I have some setting up to do of authentication that was never tended
to as a post install task?

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>> I get this "Authentication Rejected" error when launching applications
>> from the command line, whether I am on Gnome or KDE.  How would one go
>> about solving this problem?  The applications seem to function normally.
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