While running
gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/somefile.rules
I am getting this suggestion.
Command 'gksu' not found, did you mean:
command 'gosu' from deb gosu
command 'ksu' from deb heimdal-clients
command 'ksu' from deb krb5-user
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
I'm trying to be a good boy and stop using gksudo, especially since it just got orphaned in the 18.04 daily builds (note, this question is not specific to 18.04).
In the bad old days of using gksudo, I'd typically navigate to a folder containing the file I wish to edit (I use pcmanfm) then select Tools/Open Current Folder In Terminal from the menu. Then I'd type gksudo leafpad [file-I-wish-to-edit] in the newly opened terminal.
Using information in the very useful answer How to configure pkexec? I set my .bash_aliases and I am able to now type pkexec leafpad [file-I-wish-to-edit] in the newly opened terminal and I don't get any errors. Sadly, though I get a blank file instead of what I wanted. I have determined that this is because leafpad is looking in /root instead of the folder I wished to be in.
How can I maintain my halo, continue to use pkexec instead of gksudo, yet retain the functionality I'm used to?
gksudo seeming to be somehow depreciated since 2017 as I see on the french forum documentation, is there an environment and version agnostic best practice allowing to use gedit as root?
(excluding vim, nano or tee: the use case being a GUI amendment of sources.list for instance)
My researchs brought me these proposals, are they equivalent or to be rejected :
pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY gedit
gedit admin:///path/to/document
sudo -i gedit
sudo -H gedit
Any other ?
Something happened few days ago in my Xubuntu 14.04. None of applications which require admin password won't open. Apps like GParted, Update Manager, File Manager when trying to open a folder as root, etc...
No matter how I start them. From the menu, desktop or in terminal using gksudo. In every case after entering the (the correct) password, the password dialog hides away and then the indicator light of the hard disk starts to blink heavily. But app window won't show up. Task Manager shows that the app uses 25% of CPU-time. And this keeps going no matter how long I wait.
Updating and upgrading work fine when started in terminal using sudo. Nano, leafpad and any GUI apps work fine even when started in terminal as NORMAL user, but not with gksudo nor sudo...
My username has sudo & adm groups. All been working fine for years but suddenly this problem occured. I'm wondering that hard disk usage which never ends. To get rid of that the OS must be rebooted.
So guys, how to sort this out?
I've been using gksudo nautilus and sudo nautilus through Alt+F2.
What's the difference? They look very similar!