Gksu in 14.04?

Chris cpollock at embarqmail.com
Wed Aug 6 18:40:06 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 11:30 -0700, Brandon Vincent wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> > What needs to be done to fix this issue?
> 
> Per the documentation aforementioned:
> 
> "As a result, pkexec will not allow you to run X11 applications as
> another user since the $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY environment variables
> are not set. These two variables will be retained if the
> org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui annotation on an action is
> set to a nonempty value; this is discouraged, though, and should only
> be used for legacy programs."
> 
> Brandon Vincent
> 

So, the alternative is to continue to use 'gksudo' to run nautilus as
admin, did I read that correctly?

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Chris
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