On 12/11/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: > On 12/11/2013 06:45 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> In addition to GParted, I would like to employ this method for the >> Catalyst Control Center for my ATI-Radeon chip. > You have to edit both .desktop files and add "pkexec /path/to/program" > to the Exec= line. Do note that using pkexec requires an authentication > agent to be running, such as polkit-gnome or lxpolkit. > > The file you mentioned is necessarry because pkexec won't allow running > gui programs by default. > When I first read this, I didn't do anything because I have polkit-gnome installed. When I made the changes for pkexec in the gparted.desktop file and tried to run it, nothing happened. I didn't even get the message that I needed to be root. I guess that's progress.
But when I checked my installation of polkit-gnome, I discovered that I had forgotten to add the helper file in /etc/xde/autostart. I created that file and tried to run GParted again and once more nothing happened. I took a closer look at the file and saw the line: > AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome I'm not using Gnome, but xfce4. I logged out and restarted xfce4, but gnome-polkit didn't start. I don't know how to change the line in the polkit-gnome.desktop file. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
