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Oops retraction: Actually do care which distro people choose. Would like to see them go with Debian proper. Those "based" on vast majority, are just Debian called something else. Maintainers choose the theme, a cool brand image, non-free all included out-of-box and they select the default ...

Wouldn't worry overmuch about it OP. Wayland can still be a good ways off anyway. Also hoping many independent and volunteer project developers and maintainers stick to their guns and keep doing what they've always done. Which will almost assuredly include coming out with alternatives and options. I...

In respect of file managers I think you may be SOL. Isn't the future wonderful? :mrgreen: In respect to Debian, if it continues like this, users will start to move to other distros. Isn't the future wonderful? :mrgreen: It's not a Debian thing, the process is being driven by the upstream developers...

LMAO Wizard, good point. Doesn't really matter to me in a personal computing environment, though a multi-user situation it likely would. Have two Debian installs, one with (lightdm), one without and using this approach on that OS. Though thanks, now that you bring it up, may go ahead and scrub light...

wonder how many people are running X under the root account? I can. I have not checked lately, but I did put complete root accounts on each of my 4 rolling images. The last time I check one was a basic amd64 image after upgraded to buster. There were a handful of changes and a few things no longer ...

I had an amusing thought - wonder how many people are running X under the root account?

The only display manager I know of that runs X as an unprivileged user is GDM, and is the reason I don't use a display manager

... upstream. Just that it is, what it is and overall what we have to work with or around. Mentioned (and it was confirmed by Wizard10000) no reason gksu won't continue working fine in Buster, not sure what issue you're having with lxqt-sudo either. Can't fathom why there'd be any problem, in particular ...

... not debians fault. Thunar works fine, so the issue is with the file managers not yet compliant with polkit. So, in this case, kde is the issue. gksu has been gone for awhile now. spacefm still works fine with sudo.

... issues cropped up.(Even when was more newbish. Which was user error through ignorance at the time.) Mentioned am planning on continued use of the gksu/do packages in Buster (or lxqt-sudo). Thanks Wizard10000 for confirming it'll work. I'm still using Stretch at the moment here. Personally will ...

... sudo poses a security hazard so, this workaround is not good, but IMO the worst of the worst is to rely on deprecated packages like kdesudo and gksu that are not maintained anymore. We have synaptic using kdesudo and who knows how many more are using gksu or kdesudo. Here is a tiny script as ...

write pkexec rules for applications you need them for and share them with the world. I tried, guess nobody was paying attention... I tried a couple too, one worked and another didn't. Which is one of the points I was making - I found a different way to accomplish the same task, different software I...

The answer to the topic is the replacement of kdesudo and gksu is most commonly policykit but pkexec files have not been included for all software. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to learn to write pkexec rules for applications you need ...

sunrat wrote: write pkexec rules for applications you need them for and share them with the world.

I tried, guess nobody was paying attention...

It's not a debian issue at all, so swapping distro's won't help. In this particular thread the culprit is kde. A DE does not a distro make.

... lament the passing of old ways but there are always new ways which can be easily learnt. The answer to the topic is the replacement of kdesudo and gksu is most commonly policykit but pkexec files have not been included for all software. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to learn to write ...