<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jani Monoses wrote: <blockquote cite="mid29e115530510090023k5d62e41g3157e4b6ebab2987@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If you don't have gksu, as far as I can tell, synaptic would only be able to be run from the command line. Package gksu draws in only a few extra packages on my system, including gnome-keyring. </blockquote> </div> if synaptic does not work without gksu then we will include it. gnome-keyring does not look like too much of a dependency, but we'll have to make sure it is started by xfce session.(Same thing with esound) Jani </blockquote> Synaptic will work fine. But it needs to be run as root or with sudo. The synaptic.desktop file that ubuntu installs refers to gksudo. If the gksu package is not installed, then the menu item will not show up. Synaptic will still work fine, but have no menu item. It would have to be started by command line. I don't think gnomekeyring would have to be started up by the session for gksudo to work. Its just a dependency quirk I think. I could be wrong though. I hope I'm making sense :) </body> </html>