Firestarter from Gnome

[João Inácio]

Thanks,
that one was bugging me!

João Inácio

de Selby 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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