gksu, wherefore art thou?

I am really liking 11.2. I really really wish Novell would get off their tukus and finally hire a top notch marketing dept. (I have been with Novell since back in the Netware days and they have lacked serious marketing since way back then.) 11.2 is practically a home run in my books.

However, I do have a concern that is serious to me. The seeming absence of gksu. This is a valuable tool especially in Xfce and other non-kde environments.

I have been trying to find information on why I am not seeing gksu as part of the newest implementation of opensuse and the answer is not forthcoming, so I come here to see if there may be someone to shed light on the subject for me.

It is disappointing enough to see gdm so mutilated as to lose the theming and customization, but to lose such a special tool in gksu is very confusing to me.

If we can regain this, I for one would be so appreciative.

Big Bear

If you do a search in Yast-webpin you will find it.

Hi
You can use gnomesu or xdg-su -c for gdm it needs to be done manually
now if you wish to tweak;
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/430966-how-downgrade-gdm-opensuse-11-2-one-used-11-1-a.html


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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thank you, I don’t know If I really want to downgrade gdm. for most of my uses, the biggest concern is having the faces options allowing users to choose their user name and then type their password and this gdm does that.

the gnome-su I will have to try, my biggest reason is for added on Xfce environments, but xdg will work there as well I know.

Big Bear

Hi
No need to downgrade…?? http://forums.opensuse.org/2108064-post8.html
You just need to run commands manually on the existing install.


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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I think if you have xfce xdgsu -c will be present and ready to use.

that is very handy. bookmarked. thank you very much.

Big Bear

kdesu works fine :wink:

I guess that’s perspective. I’ve only found kde useful when I can’t get a real DE to run.

:wink:

Big Bear

btw, I am only giving a ‘tweak’ back to the one I got about kdesu. This is by no means an invitation to start a kde/gnome thing. I actually intended to come back and erase my comment but I realized I can’t. please let the kde/gnome comments go by.

Big Bear

it was obviously made mischievously-jokingly…made me laugh, no prob…hehe

That is tremendous, I hadn’t even really paid attention to that before, thank you.

Big Bear