From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 6 22:50:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC221065679 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50188FC15 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nB6MojX9015196; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:50:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Stevan Tiefert 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Ca2iq9hx62QQb5amINvu" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:50:44 -0500 Message-ID: <1260139844.98943.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gksu not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:50:44 -0000 --=-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--