Re: xdg-su: using gnomesu in the generic option if available.
Rex Dieter <[email protected]>
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PCMan wrote: > 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! There are "reasons(tm)"(1) why xdg-utils doesn't install xdg-su by default, though I wouldn't object to adopting patches to improve it either. My strong recommendation: just use pkexec (or engineer things to use policykit natively). -- Rex _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg