Hi everyone,
Normally under Gnome or Cinnamon in openSUSE, opening the YAST control center or the software manager from the menu brings up a root password prompt, which I think is pkexec. But under XFCE or another alternative desktop environment, it brings up an xterm with xdg-su asking for the password. It works, but it’s ugly and the xterm has to stay open as long as YAST is running. Is there a way to make it use a more user-friendly and aesthetic password prompt?
Thanks!
No, it’s gnomesu.
But under XFCE or another alternative desktop environment, it brings up an xterm with xdg-su asking for the password. It works, but it’s ugly and the xterm has to stay open as long as YAST is running. Is there a way to make it use a more user-friendly and aesthetic password prompt?
Actually the menu entry runs xdg-su on all desktops (there is only one menu entry for YaST in the distribution). xdg-su tries to figure out what desktop is in use and calls an appropriate command then to switch to root (either kdesu, gnomesu, or “su -” in an xterm).
I just checked and in fact it uses gnomesu on XFCE as well, only if that’s not installed it falls back to “su -”.
So just install gnomesu and it should be used, it’s in the package libgnomesu.
Thanks a lot wolfi323](https://forums.opensuse.org/member.php/40214-wolfi323), exactly what I needed! That solved my problem.
I currently have the same issue but cannot resolve it: Leap42.1 with LXQT only opens up xdg-su…even though libgnomesu is actually installed. Calling gnomesu in a terminal opens up the dialog as expected so it should be working.
It seems to be a known bug in LXQT