Doesn't allow me to set a proxy nor looks at the proxy key in gconf

Bug #21793 reported by Philip Van Hoof
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

The update-notifier program doesn't look at the proxy key in gconf. It also
doesn't let me set a proxy

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

This has been reported before and is a conceptional problem that the
applications run by update-notifier (update-manager, synaptic) run as root and
can't connect to the users gconf settings.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13661.

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