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lxappearance not working (solved)

PostPosted: Jun 12th, '25, 01:38
by daniewicz
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# lxappearance

** (lxappearance:34323): WARNING **: 18:36:29.595: lxappearance.c:67: Failed to connect to the session message bus: The connection is closed

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 12th, '25, 11:05
by sturmvogel
A shot in the dark...
Can you post the output of
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rpm -qa | grep dbus

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 12th, '25, 18:28
by doktor5000
Because of the # prompt - are you running that as regular user, or as root ?

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 13th, '25, 01:57
by daniewicz

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 13th, '25, 01:58
by daniewicz
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$ rpm -qa | grep dbus
lib64dbus1_3-1.14.6-1.mga9
dbus-1.14.6-1.mga9
lib64dbus-glib1_2-0.112-2.mga9
python3-dbus-1.3.2-1.mga9
lib64dbusmenu-glib4-16.04.1-1.20170109.6.mga9
lib64dbusmenu-gtk3_4-16.04.1-1.20170109.6.mga9
dbus-x11-1.14.6-1.mga9
xdg-dbus-proxy-0.1.3-2.mga9
python3-qt5-dbus-5.15.7-3.mga9
lib64dbusmenu-qt5_2-0.9.3-1.20160218.6.mga9
qttools5-qtdbus-5.15.7-2.mga9
lib64kf5dbusaddons5-5.114.0-1.mga9
lib64dbus-gir1.0-1.76.1-2.mga9
lib64dleyna-connector-dbus-0.4.1-1.mga9
qemu-audio-dbus-7.2.15-1.mga9
lib64qt6dbus6-6.4.1-5.1.mga9
lib64qt5dbus5-5.15.7-6.1.mga9

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 13th, '25, 10:23
by doktor5000
How do you become root ?

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 13th, '25, 16:33
by daniewicz
su

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 13th, '25, 17:08
by Germ
Use su - to login as root rather than su.

That will give you the full root environment variables.

Re: lxappearance not working

PostPosted: Jun 14th, '25, 01:11
by daniewicz
Thanks. That worked.