Ed neither of those work with the program in question. I get the prompt then nothing happens afterwards.
Tom I will try lxsudo and report back On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 6:43 PM Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:07:44 -0700 > Vince Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am looking for an alternative to gksu/gksudo (they are no longer > > supported) or to pkexec (getting it setup for the gui is annoying, > > i.e. editing policy). > > > > I am trying to make a cinnamon desktop launch that asks for a > > password, keeping simple as I can to implement. > > > > --- > > Vince Winter > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > lxsudo > > https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-sudo > > Don't use pkexec. It's way more complicated than it needs to be and is > some kind of windows registry-eske of XML policy configuration. > > -- > _______________________________________ > / ... though his invention worked \ > | superbly -- his theory was a crock of | > | sewage from beginning to end. | > | | > \ -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War" / > --------------------------------------- > \ > \ > /\ /\ > //\\_//\\ ____ > \_ _/ / / > / * * \ /^^^] > \_\O/_/ [ ] > / \_ [ / > \ \_ / / > [ [ / \/ _/ > _[ [ \ /_/ > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Vince Winter Tech Support Staff Free Geek _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
