<[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > David Christensen <[email protected]> writes: > > [...] > >> > I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt >> > for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't know what >> > it is called. >> >> Is there a debian package for this? : >> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-polkit >> >> "A simple PolicyKit authentication agent for XFCE" > > There seem to be several options [1]. Gksu, some polkit thingy... > Blame my search engine if it fails ;-) > > > Cheers > > [1] https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11728
Gksu is a frontend for su which a developer would apply to an app as I understand it. I am dealing with an applet, so I cannot edit its icon and put a wrapper in. Some polkit thingy would be xfce-polkit I think, but I found no debian package.
