Re: sudo in X-environment
On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 06:29 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> Thanks. As I said earlier, I consider this a bug. What's the point of
> using gksu/gksudo if you have do use a wrapper that you could use
> around su/sudo?
You still will get a GUI to enter the password. When running su/sudo by
a launcher, you at least need to run it in a terminal emulation.
Btw. perhaps only a bug for Arch Linux and not for Debian. I didn't make
this test for my Debian install. I'll do it within the next days.
> Maybe pkexec is the solution?
Perhaps it is, but AFAIK I have to launch lxpolkit to use it, I already
prepared my .jwmrc, but it's still commented out.
$ cat .jwmrc | grep lxpol
<!-- lxpolkit is needed when e.g. using "pkexec" instead of "gksudo" -->
<!-- <StartupCommand>/usr/lib/lxpolkit/lxpolkit</StartupCommand> -->
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