On July 27, 2007 7:20:02 am BandiPat wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Continuing to work on the system I've installed xfce on opensuse 10.2 > > > > An xfce menu for yast2 is available,. but when selected it doesn't > > prompt for the root password, and only offers a couple of modules. > > Its not possible to install software or configure anything. > > > > I'm setting this system up for someone who has never used linux > > before - I would like to provide him with the ability to conveniently > > add software and configure the system. > > > > Can the menu item be modified so that it prompts for the root > > password? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gord > > ============= > Gord, > According to where SuSE keeps their files, you can edit the desktop icon > located in /usr/share/applications for that item to add a root login. > Just edit the icon's text by right clicking to open with an editor. > Zenwalk uses the above location, but I'm don't remember where SuSE puts > things for XFCE4. You can also, right click on the panel to add the > item there making it call for root login. Just use "gksu <program > name> to bring up the root password requestor. You could also use that > command from a shell while in XFCE4. > > Hope that helps. > > Lee
I've had no success with gksu. Does anyone know what package and repository it is in? When I do a search for gksu from yast's software management I am given the package: python-gnome-extras I installed python-gnome-extras, however it doesn't appear to include a gksu binary, but installs a folder labelled gksu. A package listing rpm -ql python-gnome-extras | grep gksu gives: pp0000b4c56400:/home/vasu/temp # rpm -ql python-gnome-extras | grep gksu /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gksu /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gksu/__init__.py /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gksu/__init__.pyc If I call gksu I get this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp> gksu bash: gksu: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp> which gksu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp> gksu yast2 bash: gksu: command not found Any suggestions? -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4461 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
