On 12/11/2013 10:06 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/11/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: >> On 12/11/2013 06:45 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> In addition to GParted, I would like to employ this method for the >>> Catalyst Control Center for my ATI-Radeon chip. >> You have to edit both .desktop files and add "pkexec /path/to/program" >> to the Exec= line. Do note that using pkexec requires an authentication >> agent to be running, such as polkit-gnome or lxpolkit. >> >> The file you mentioned is necessarry because pkexec won't allow running >> gui programs by default. >> > When I first read this, I didn't do anything because I have polkit-gnome > installed. When I made the changes for pkexec in the gparted.desktop > file and tried to run it, nothing happened. I didn't even get the > message that I needed to be root. I guess that's progress. >
You don't need to be root. As I said, pkexec *won't* allow you to run gui programs when using "pkexec guiprogram" unless you *create* a policy file in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions (which is the file you posted and I linked to in the arch forums). > But when I checked my installation of polkit-gnome, I discovered that I > had forgotten to add the helper file in /etc/xde/autostart. I created > that file and tried to run GParted again and once more nothing happened. > I took a closer look at the file and saw the line: > >> AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome > This condition makes sure polkit-gnome doesn't start in gnome-shell environment, which has its own polkit-authentication-agent, but that it starts in gnome fallback, which was available back then. > I'm not using Gnome, but xfce4. I logged out and restarted xfce4, but > gnome-polkit didn't start. I don't know how to change the line in the > polkit-gnome.desktop file. > > Dan > > You don't need to change it at all. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
