Questions tagged [gksu]

gksu is a GTK+ frontend to su and sudo

gksu is a front-end to su and gksudo is a front-end to sudo. Their primary purpose is to run graphical commands that need root without the need to run an X terminal emulator and using su directly.

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GKSu Installation error

sudo apt install gksu -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package gksu is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been…
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gksudo waits for a few seconds after execution

I'm frequently using application launchers to run personal bash scripts and thus I often use gksudo in case I do administrative tasks. The problem is that when I execute a command with gksudo,the execution is successful, but afterwards gksudo waits…
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Does `gksudo` work for any GUI program?

I thought gksudo is what sudo is in terminal. I wanted to open SciTE eleveted and change some "protected" file, so I issue 'gksudo SciTE`, but nothing happens, SciTE isn't run at all - gksudo dialog shows, then I enter my password, but program…
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