----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant@xxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:18 PM Subject: Remote Desktops > > Hi all, > > I like to use 'remote desktop' aka VNC for doing all of my > work remotely but I have a big problem. It seems that alot > of my superuser required gui's such as up2date, synaptic which > pops up the su-login dialog box and password is entered but > after that, nothing. I seems to be forced to run su-required > guis on the console only which they work. > > Any pointers? Don't know about synaptic but you can call "up2date --nox" to run it in text mode.