On 08/31/2018 10:54 AM, Vittorio Beggi GMAIL wrote: > I have heard that on the next distros of Debian, the package "Gksu" wil be > deprecated and no more included among the installable packages.
Right. There is no gksu in sid/ceres or buster/beowulf. The solution suggested in Ubuntu only works in Gnome. (example: gedit admin:///etc/default/grub). Some apps have already replaced gksu with pkexec in stretch/ascii, and I wish that solution worked in all cases. There are plenty of posts from people who can't start synaptic from the menu, and I know of one case of someone (me) who can start synaptic from the menu and install packages without having to provide a password. A more universal replacement that I've been using is: xterm -e su -c 'some-program' It looks like there are some other replacements, such as 'sux' in Arch and 'zensu' in Manjaro. I don't know anything about them. I suppose it's possible that gksu could survive if someone adopted or forked it and wanted to maintain it. fsmithred _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng