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... appLoader| I005+ /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-fuseUI.so 2020-12-29T11:55:33.002-03:00| appLoader| I005+ /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-gksu.so 2020-12-29T11:55:33.002-03:00| appLoader| I005+ /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig.so 2020-12-29T11:55:33.002-03:00| appLoader| I005+ /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-netcfg.so ...

... some default actions for the first user it would then be the same, but incomplete and much clumsier. So we hire Peter and fire Paul, to what end? gksu George still feels slighted!

... Is there a chicken and egg here? I wouldn't know since all my installations are years old, created with a root user, and have graduated through gksu, sudo, and now primarily pkexec. While pkexec can be used and all of its extensive granularity can be set, it does require root to do so! Once ...

... REMASTERSYS INSTALLATION The following modules were collected in a Deb10remastersys directory: gksu_2.0.2-9+b1_i386.deb libgtop-2.0-10_2.34.2-1_i386.deb libgksu2-0_2.0.13~pre1-9+b1_i386.deb remastersys_3.0.0-1_all.deb libgnome-keyring0_3.12.0-1+b2_i386.deb ...

... no biggie but opening graphical apps with sudo is not good practice. Using sudo with commandline stuff is of course no problem ... I still use gksu/do on Buster, no problemo, though yeppers policy files and stuff like pkexec and so forth are what's advised now whenever a nixer is wanting to ...

... has been deprecated; it ended in stretch. Try Mousepad or one of several alternatives. It may have been a bad or dicey habit, but I used to use 'gksu nautilus' to do things . . . Agreed, it is a bad habit. Netinstall is a very good method and you are to be to be commended for trying it. :!:

... don't need to change grub right now). I can use nano in place of leafpad without issue. It may have been a bad or dicey habit, but I used to use 'gksu nautilus' to do things like changing a line in a gtk theme when I used a full DE. I see that gksu is discontinued. I can't open PCManFM with sudo ...

It's DEPRECATED, deprecated ... dammit ! Noticed you'd (@CwF) misspelled it in a thread about gksu/do being deprecated too. Mostly being a dork, cool info thanks for sharing.

geoffkaniuk wrote:remove gksu and have been wondering what its replacement would be

pkexec
I still have and use a root terminal in bullseye, since stretch.

The caja-admin package looks interesting in view of the obsolete gksu that was used to run Root Terminal in stretch. I am about to remove gksu and have been wondering what its replacement would be. I would be very interested to know if you still have the ...

... . It has a lot of recommends, and some of those I do have. The caja-admin package looks interesting in view of the obsolete gksu that was used to run Root Terminal in stretch. I am about to remove gksu and have been wondering what its replacement would be. I would be very ...

... The terminal command is: users-admin [ ...]I have noticed however that there are still elements left over from the original upgrade. In particular gksu is still used in the Root Terminal applet. On 'geoff', mate-system-log is launched via gksu , but not in 'newgeoff'. I have been advised not to ...

... 'newgeoff' without any Mate problems. I have noticed however that there are still elements left over from the original upgrade. In particular gksu is still used in the Root Terminal applet. On 'geoff', mate-system-log is launched via gksu , but not in 'newgeoff'. I have been advised not to ...

... no change of settings. Examined dconf-editor: Nothing useful there. Exmined .xsession-errors: There are mate-terminal Gtk-CRITICAL errors. Run gksu mate-search-tool. I know that gksu is obsoleted, but sudo all the time? I will of course post details of the issues in due course. I would really ...

... the plugins. I am still interested in your view on: Backport geany from bullseye, but make install geany plugins? Thanks for your comment re gksu , I will make the change. I did not spot gksu mentioned in the Release notes Ch 5 while preparing. Is there a way to list all the packages removed ...