Wayland,Synaptic continue without administrative privileges

[Dai_trying]

Just a note that this would not be called from a personal bin folder without a reboot (or maybe log out/in) as system does not check this folders existence (and add it to $PATH) in real time, only at startup

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Just a note that this would not be called from a personal bin folder without a reboot (or maybe log out/in) as system does not check this folders existence (and add it to $PATH) in real time, only at startup

Just logging out & back in again should do it, ~/.profile adds ~/bin to PATH automatically if it exists.

[Dai_trying]

Just logging out & back in again should do it, ~/.profile adds ~/bin to PATH automatically if it exists.

Yes, my point exactly

[manelinux]

it's not necessary to logout or reboot,
first of all, in my laptop, the personal folder bin was recognized without any special action, the bash completion, in my case, recognize the bin personal folder
this is a part of user file .profile at home
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# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi
-------
in other case, just add the bin folder to the PATH and run:

source .profile

bye.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

it's not necessary to logout or reboot,
first of all, in my laptop, the personal folder bin was recognized without any special action, the bash completion, in my case, recognize the bin personal folder

Yes, that's because you already had ~/bin

in other case, just add the bin folder to the PATH and run:

source .profile

That won't work for all shells:

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E485:~$ source ~/.profile
loksh: source: not found
E485:~127$ 

Better to suggest the POSIX version:

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. ~/.profile

But even then you would have to run that command for every new shell that was opened so it would be better to log out & back in again.

[manelinux]

i dont know why your have not source command friend.
The source command can be used to load any functions file into the current shell script or a command prompt without logout before.
Used to refresh the current shell environment, the source command can also be used in order to import functions into other bash scripts or to run scripts into the current shell environment.

try it.
make a new directory called whatever, put there the file, add this directory to path and run source.
i'm not inventing nothing.

and in this case, we are only adding a folder to the path env var. nothing special.

bye

[Head_on_a_Stick]

i dont know why your have not source command friend.

It's a bashism and so is not supported by all shells. The POSIX equivalent of source is . (dot) and that is supported by all shells.

[manelinux]

Yeah! nice note!

i see, loksh is a port of OpenBSD, that's recommended for a resource-constrained systems
Nice to know friend, Thx.

bye

[rulet]

I have Debian 10 installed and synaptic works under administrative privileges under wayland gnome session... How can it be?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

How can it be?

Are you sure that Wayland is running? https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... being-used

Synaptic will start under Wayland in my buster system but it runs without root privileges.

EDIT: I can start synaptic as root by using

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xhost +local:
sudo synaptic

But don't try this at home folks!

And if you do then remember to reset the permissions afterwards:

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xhost -local:

[rulet]

The session which was choosed is Gnome Wayland, but command output shows:
r@prime:~$ loginctl show-session "$XDG_SESSION_ID" -p Type
Type=x11
So, I think if even to choose wayland session while installed nvidia driver it will defaults to x11(maybe that's because I'm using old nvidia driver(cause video card is pretty old).

[trinidad]

Running synaptic under wayland is a good way to break stuff. That said: to run synaptic under wayland you need an x11 backend as well as an x11 frontend and you must run from root.
So it follows:

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trinidad@debianamd1:~$ Xephyr -br -ac -noreset -screen 1150x850 :8

Then in a new terminal:

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trinidad@debianamd1:~$ su
Password: 
root@debianamd1:/home/trinidad# DISPLAY=:8 GDK_BACKEND=x11 synaptic

This will open synaptic in a wayland session under root but I would definitely not use it. Most everything you have a problem with in wayland, that used to run under x11, will work like this, but it is almost never a good idea. The rare exception is x11 forwarding with SSH where it comes in handy.

https://www.dbts-analytics.com/notesxfwdgb.html

Simple concepts to remember: client needs x11 frontend, host needs x11 backend. I feel like a saboteur providing this info... So one more concept to remember: wayland doesn't break things, x11 does.

TC

[manyroads]

Sorry for the necro-response... but I have found that starting synaptic from a terminal using the following command works:

sudo -E synaptic