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+1 gksu now I used sudo mousepad Please be careful using sudo to launch graphical applications. Unless you use sudo -i or sudo --login the root account is working in *your* environment which means that files created or edited ...

+1 gksu

now I used sudo mousepad

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I'm cheating here on the first two. I'm still using Debian 10 which has them.

gksu roxterm pornview! xmms leafpad I also miss xmms although audacious and qmmp will use my favorite winamp2 skin so all is not completely lost :) Mentioned it in my own post above but if you miss gksu you might give lxqt-sudo ...

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gksu since I'm apparently allergic to polkit - lxqt-sudo has proven to be an acceptable replacement, though.

Stretch was the last distribution that had gksu

... users who want to be able to use packages from older releases. I'll admit to installing packages from oldoldstable - mainly because I preferred gksu to polkit but since Bookworm's release that's no longer an option because Stretch is no longer oldoldstable. But - that's okay, I discovered lxqt-sudo ...

... of KDE, it search for the first of the following programs (from left to right): + '[' kde = kde ']' + candidates='pkexec su-to-root kdesu gnomesu gksu beesu xdg-su sux' This is the output in my installation of Debian Bookworm 12.1 with KDE Plasma: $ which pkexec su-to-root gnomesu gksu kdesu beesu ...

What is the output of the following command in your kde installation ? which pkexec su-to-root gnomesu gksu kdesu beesu xdg-su sux Nothing at all. You can collect more information starting gsmartcontrol with the following commands: script log.txt bash -xv gsmartcontrol-root ...

... Smartctl does work in the terminal. What is the output of the following command in your kde installation ? which pkexec su-to-root gnomesu gksu kdesu beesu xdg-su sux You can collect more information starting gsmartcontrol with the following commands: script log.txt bash -xv gsmartcontrol-root ...

... gsmartcontrol installed via apt, I get Error launching gsmartcontrol: No suitable su mechanism found. Try installing PolKit, kdesu, gnomesu, gksu, beesu or sux first. I installed Debian 12 with the KDE Plasma desktop, isn't this supposed to be installed already? Should I install another one ...

... qtwayland5 qt5-qmltooling-plugins gimp libreoffice lxlauncher pidgin pk-update-icon xfce4-power-manager xmms2-plugin-all menu-l10n gksu | kde-runtime | ktsuss libxml2-dev tint2 openbox-gnome-session openbox-kde-session python3-pyxattr-dbg python-pyxattr-doc arj binutils lhasa liblz4-tool ...

... or hide the GRUB boot menu? from Ask Ubuntu: To not see the GRUB menu while booting: Open the /etc/default/grub file using from terminal entering: gksu gedit /etc/default/grub Change GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 to GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 Save the file and quit the text editor. Run: sudo update-grub Reboot. I ran: gksu ...

... the first user will be able to use it to gain root access (currently, the user will be added to the sudo group). The system will also configure gksu and aptitude to use sudo. You should still verify group membership after logging in as the installed user. Source - https://wiki.debian.org/sudo/ ...

... packages from a prior version of Debian, especially where I'd been using those and they'd been dropped for one reason or another. Examples include gksu and pinta which I took from Stretch in Buster. So,Virtualbox would be one, provided that I could be confident that Debian and Oracle could sort ...

... python3.5 python3.5-minimal samba-common Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: gconf2 gksu libgksu2-0 python python-cairo python-dbus python-gi python-glade2 python-gobject python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-notify python-numpy python-wicd ...

... Since it's not really spec'ed or standardized it needs to be searched for. I haven't done that lately, I suppose on the first page may include a gksu result, that's unfortunate. I don't even do it the same. I use a minimal semi-custom XFCE on everything. I use a pkla rule file for pkexec in /etc/polkit-s/localauthority, ...

Has it just been completely dropped from Debian? Yes. how can I run GUI programs in root mode? You already have — how do you think Synaptic is working? :mrgreen: Look: $ grep 'Exec=' /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop Exec=synaptic-pkexec $ cat `which synaptic-pkexec` #!/bin/sh pkexec "/...

... desktop, and then did a full upgrade of the programs using Synaptic. I installed D10 without setting a root user, intending to rely on su & gksu. This is on an old Toshiba Satellite laptop, w/ 1GB RAM, in a dual-boot setup. The other installed OS is a very old Ubuntu v10 OS. In Debian 10, ...

... (base package) i A gcc-6-base:i386 - GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package) i A gcc-6-multilib - GNU C compiler (multilib support) i A gksu - graphical front-end to su and sudo i icedove - mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support i leafpad - GTK+ based simple text ...