[Dapper] remote gksu: when it greys out the screen, it's too slow...

[Darryl Clarke]

On 12/03/06, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> On my local machine (and even over a fast local network connection), I
> love how gksu greys out the desktop before grabbing keyboard focus. It's
> visually and mentally great.
>
> However, sometimes I need to run things like gnome-cups-manager and
> other gnome-system-tools remotely, particularly when helping my parents
> out on their computers at home, and it's just too darn slow for gksu to
> take the screenshot, grey it out, and send it back to my machine. Is
> there a way to disable this feature when I'm using a slow link?

gksudo --disable-grab [command]

might do the trick...
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