ubuntu-tweak under fluxbox

[Rainer M Krug]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Evan Huus <eapache at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> > I am using ubuntu-tweak under fluxbox (ubuntu natty), and the "unlock"
> > button does not work - nothing happens. I assume, that a gnome
> > background process is not running, but I am not that keen on having
> > another process just running in the background, only because I need it
> > once in a while.
>
> Hi Rainer.
>
> Ubuntu Tweak (and a good number of other applications) handle
> permissions and the magic 'unlock' button through a system called
> PolicyKit [1], which is a FreeDesktop spec (not a Gnome one). I'm not
> on an Ubuntu install at the moment, but I believe that to make
> policykit available, you simply have to have the 'polkitd' binary
> running, and of course DBus active so that applications can talk to
> it.
>
>
I would like to start that service, but it seem to have  this daemon. I
checked and found in

/etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop

 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

and if I execute this, it works.

> WOuld it be possible to include an alternative approach for the
> > "unlock" under window managers like fluxbox? Under the normal gnome
> > desktop and unity, ubuntu-tweak is working fine.
>
> The only alternative is to run the entire application as root (which
> is what Synaptic Package Manager, for example, used to do), however
> that's generally considered a Bad Idea security-wise. That's why most
> applications which require privileges are moving to PolicyKit.
>

That's what I am doing at the moment - not nice, but it works.


>
> Again, I don't have a box in front of me but I don't remember polkitd
> being particularly resource-intensive. If you'd still rather not have
> it running all the time though, you should be able to start/stop it
> manually when needed.
>
> Hope this helps,
>

Yes, and thanks,

Rainer


> Evan
>
> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit
>
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