On Wednesday 29 July 2020 10:01:10 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 29 Jul 09:39:46 -0500 > > Michael scripsit: > > Issue: > > In TDE in MX18 (stretch) the MX Tools apps would open in TDE. > > > > In TDE in MX19 (buster) the MX Tools that need to run as root will not > > open in TDE. The behavior is click the menu item and nothing happens > > (e.g. do not get any prompts for password). > > > > MX Dev: > > “What does TDE Buster use to escalate permissions for their apps that > > need it?” > > “We did switch them to using a wrapper called mx-pkexec to keep the tools > > working on Buster after Debian removed gksu and went more to > > policykit-based privileges.” > > IMO it's "tdesu" Thanks Nik, Temporary fix (loging out to Xfce is horrible!). Example MX tool Menu Command: su-to-root -X -c mx-packageinstaller Works from command line: tdesu mx-packageinstaller Best, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
