On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 02:15:19PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 14:03, zithro wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 > > > Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce? > > > > > > Nope. I have synaptic running here with xfce4 on Bullseye. > > > > > > synaptic 0.90.2 amd64 > > > xfce4 4.16 all > > > > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I tried synaptic manually (on XFCE), I > > had to use pkexec and NOT sudo. > > It doesn't start from a root xterm either. > > This remark is for Gene, who only uses variations of "sudo". > > > > $ which synaptic-pkexec > > /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec > > $ /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec > > > > "synaptic-pkexec" is what's needed if not using the distro-provided > > shortcut. > > Here, the shortcut in XFCE under "System -> Synaptic package manager" > > effectively launches "synaptic-pkexec". > > synaptic-pkexec is a shell script containing: > > pkexec "/usr/sbin/synaptic" "$@" > > > > Another note, if you use pkexec directly, this won't work : > > $ pkexec synaptic > > Cannot run program synaptic: No such file or directory > > > > But this is OK > > $ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic > > > paste: > gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: > Connection refused > Failed to initialize GTK. The MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE refers to an authorization file which will be in the home directory of the user on whose behalf X was started, typically under the name .Xauthority. The idea is that whoever has access to this file is allowed to talk to the X server (an early example of a "capability" [1], if you wish). If you are running a pure Wayland session, with no Xwayland, I won't be able to help you -- I'll try to quit computing before I have to touch that. But that would possibly mean that synaptic /wants/ to run under X (or some emulation thereof). If it does run as a "normal" user, see whether you find this .Xauthority file in your /home and copy it over to /root: may be that helps, may be not (chmod/chown to taste: root has to be able to read it). Cheers -- t
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