Firestarter from Gnome

[David M. Carney]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:12:13 -0400, de Selby <dadaism at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently asked a question about problems with running Firestarter
> firewall from Gnome and the unanimous suggestion was to right click on
> the Firestarter menu icon -> Properties -> Command: change "gksu" to
> "gksudo". However, I found that the entry is reset back to gksu after
> each reboot, so I thought I'd post the permanent solution here for
> anyone who's been having trouble running Firestarter from Gnome:
> 
> Basically, edit the file:  /usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/firestarter.desktop
> (you might need root privileges for this)
> Near the bottom of this file you'll see the following line:
> Exec=gksu /usr/sbin/firestarter
> 
> Change this to read:
> Exec=gksudo /usr/sbin/firestarter
> 
> Pretty simple, but not obvious to us new linux users.
> 
> Regards,
> deSelby
> 
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That's weird. My changed menu entry for Firestarter has not changed
from gksudo over many reboots.

David

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