Re: xdg-su: using gnomesu in the generic option if available.
PCMan <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Simon Lees <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was answering an openSUSE bugtracker question re xdg-su and lxqt and > the most sensible solution we came to was modifying xdg-su's behavior > when running under a generic DE to use gnomesu or kde-su if they are > present so I thought i'd put the idea up for discussion in case anyone > objects. > > For reference currently lxqt doesn't have its own replacement for > gnomesu/kde-su (well not one I know of) distro's are also highly > unlikely to recommend either of those packages with lxqt as they will > bring in uneeded kde or gtk packages but by modifying the generic > fallback to atleast check for there existence first a user can then > choose to use one of them if they please. FYI, LXQt now provides its own tool, lxqt-sudo. https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-sudo However, I think pkexec is a reasonable fallback. Cheers! > Cheers > > -- > > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > > Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek > SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+9:30 > GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg