Gksu in 14.04?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

You can do that, but a better option is probably to su to root (or
sudo -i) and run nautilus from there.

I use Xubuntu, so my file manager is thunar, and it has the same
problem you mentioned.  I have no trouble running synaptic with
pkexec, so I suspect the file managers have a more intimate
relationship with the display than some other GUI programs.

So, YMMV.

I have to wonder though why you would want to run the file manager as root.

HTH.
MR