Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:

For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except
these two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created
for the new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove the
appropriate dir.s in the home dir. of the problematic user - did not
solve the problem.

The dir.s were, IIRC:

.dbus
.gconf
.gconfd

Any other dir/file suggestion?

You can try to reboot. Strange things can happen when gnome is updated
and some files are still in use.

Done. Nothing changed. :(

Try adding the "debug" parameter:

gksu -d chromium
gksu -d qbittorrent

$ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium

May I ask why are you giving the full path to both binaries? :-?

Of course You can! :)

I do this to escape a situation when another copy of the program is run
instead of the intended one. In being hacked it may help to run not the
unwanted code.

Also, try to run gksu as root user.

(...)

Why? I can do that successfully even under normal, new user.

[23477:23477:49752580053:FATAL:browser_main.cc(1362)] Check failed:
PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir). Must be
able to get user data directory! Aborted

(...)

$ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent
(..)
buf: -gksu: waiting Couldn't set environment variable...


So, both can not get access to the required user's environment - for
some reason.

Let's see what are the perms of the user "~/.config" directory:

ls -la | grep config

Here it is:

drwx------ 11 uname uname 1024 Nov 25 00:33 .config


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