Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:50:44 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Stevan Tiefert <stevan-tiefert@kabelmail.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gksu not working Message-ID: <1260139844.98943.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1260119132.75814.18.camel@x1-6-00-0b-6a-2d-e9-9d.search.b.superkabel.de> References: <1260119132.75814.18.camel@x1-6-00-0b-6a-2d-e9-9d.search.b.superkabel.de>
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--=-Ca2iq9hx62QQb5amINvu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 18:05 +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Hello list, >=20 > I want to execute some applications as root and I wanted to use gksu or > gksudo for doing it. When I executed 'gksu gedit' the dialog for > entering the password is coming up and after entering the password > nothing happens. In a gnome-terminal gksu has to be Ctrl+C'ed to return > back to prompt, because there was no respond. The man page of gksu is > very old (2003). On the official-website of gksu a message notifies that > gksu is replaced by PolicyKit. Is gksu working at all or is there > another tool to do this task under gnome? I use gnomesu, and it works fine in GNOME 2.28. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Ca2iq9hx62QQb5amINvu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkscNUMACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4c2nACdFXYZJsRo1zoNVmejhh2PH30D YcwAoIaG+5KCu/AWZ7lnhVC2ysb/s7EU =O7zm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ca2iq9hx62QQb5amINvu--
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