-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/13 15:43, Marco wrote: > On 2013–01–09 Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Everything is still fine, but I have one problem: I use gnome-do, and when >> starting synaptic >> via gnome-do, "synaptic-pkexec" is executed. Under gnome-session, this >> launches a graphical >> dialog asking for the password to run synaptic with root privileges, but not >> when >> gnome-session is not launched, then nothing happens (same by the way when >> executing >> "synaptic-pkexec" in the awesome run box). > > I cannot directly provide a solution, but I will tell you how I solved this > (not using > gnome-do, but the awesome menubar but that should not matter, I guess). > > I copied the synaptic.desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications and > modified the name > and the command line from > > Name=Synaptic Package Manager Exec=synaptic-pkexec > > to > > Name=Synaptic Exec=su-to-root -X -c synaptic > > Shortening the name sorts it before the default one. So when I type “syn” the > customised > version is selected. And `su-to-root` uses `gksu` by default, which should > then ask for your > password.
Yes - I read this when googling, but I prefer as little as possible changes - and if other programs use the policykit as well, I have to change them as well. I rather prefer to start the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 as suggested by Christoph. Thanks a lot, Rainer > > Marco > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDthMYACgkQoYgNqgF2egpAOwCfREheGJHFOxsmKI+G/N8pGpbk KV0An1NQFEQ2nPRP4x6IrHvyvZwsgcOO =okNS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
