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

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 18:58 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> 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...

It does prevent the screen scrape and repaint, but I still would like my
keyboard and mouse locked while I type the password. Also, a tool like
gnome-cups-manager might call gksudo itself, so I can't modify its
commandline options.

One work around is to simply run sudo before running anything that might
potentially need to call sudo, but I'd rather not have to think ahead
like that.

mike

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