On 05/12/09 08:56, Ed Greshko wrote:FWIW, I am pretty sure I was barking up the wrong tree.....
It seems that DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID is actually related to Xorg than anything else....and it is too late and I've got to get up too early to really delve into it.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-lates...
It would seem that you've always started system-config-display as a normal user. I'd be curious if you'd first "su -" if the same error would occur.
Also, FWIW, there were several bugzilla's for various system-config-* utils with the same error message.
I crawled out from under my 'lectric blanket at 03:00 to investigate this ...
I "su'd" to root and the results were the same. It's a recognized problem and probably not worth further investigation at this time.
Thank you.
Bob