I tried to reproduce this issue in latest version included in Karmic and works fine for me, running from a terminal "gksudo ls -la" (for example) output right content. Please could you try to upgrade your system to latest version and check if this problem is still affecting you? Thanks in advance.
** Changed in: gksu (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- No mention in "man gksudo" that "gksudo --" is requred in order to correctly replace "sudo" in commands https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187814 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs