GKSU Probolem

[Anthony Sales]

There are two ways around this at the moment. One way is to change the menu launchers so they open in a terminal and replace gksu with sudo in the launch command, this means a terminal opens you type your password and then Orca will work - but only if you have implemented the recommended changes to add a .orbitrc files etc to the root account as detailed on the Orca sysadmin page. Bill cox has written a script called runsu which uses zenity to open a password box and run them with sudo from the runsu script - this is a bit more professional looking. The first method is used in the current Vinux release (2.1) and Bill's version will be used in version 3.0.

drbongo
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From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude [j.schmude at gmail.com]
Sent: 12 February 2010 22:15
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: GKSU Probolem

I can confirm this. Seriously, this needs to be fixed. It very much
detracts from the user experience. If gksudo is never going to be fixed
it needs to be replaced. I'm not sure precisely where the problem lies,
whether it's gksudo or something deeper in the stack causing the issue.
Either way, it's time for this bug to once and for all be squashed. It's
survived years too long.


On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:28 -0500, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I'm now running an alpha release of Lucid, and notice that the
> oft-mentioned problem where Orca stops talking once I enter my password
> for apps that need sudo still exists.  Will this be addressed in Lucid's
> final release?  Is it enough to go into the 'administration' section of
> main menu preferences and substitute "sudo" for "gksu" in the properties
> of items like "synaptic package manager", for instance?
> I work around the problem by either running such apps in the terminal
> with "sudo", or by starting the app in question, entering password,
> closing the app, then immediately reopening.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Dave  Hunt
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