David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: >> <to...@tuxteam.de> writes: >> >>> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >>>> Richmond <richm...@criptext.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>>> I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to >>>>> prompt for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't >>>>> know what it is called. >>>> >>>> Is there a debian package for this? : >>>> >>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-polkit >>>> >>>> "A simple PolicyKit authentication agent for XFCE" >>> >>> There seem to be several options [1]. Gksu, some polkit thingy... >>> Blame my search engine if it fails ;-) >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> [1] https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11728 Gksu is a frontend >> for su which a developer would apply to an app as I understand it. I >> am dealing with an applet, so I cannot edit its icon and put a >> wrapper in. Some polkit thingy would be xfce-polkit I think, but I >> found no debian package. > > > I do not see a package specifically for Xfce, but I do see one for > MATE: > > 2022-05-14 15:11:15 root@laalaa ~ # apt-cache search policy kit | sort > | grep polkit gir1.2-polkit-1.0 - GObject introspection data for > PolicyKit libpolkit-agent-1-0 - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API > libpolkit-agent-1-dev - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API - > development files libpolkit-gobject-1-0 - PolicyKit Authorization API > libpolkit-gobject-1-dev - PolicyKit Authorization API - development > files libpolkit-qt5-1-1 - PolicyKit-qt5-1 library libpolkit-qt5-1-dev > - PolicyKit-qt5-1 development files lxpolkit - LXDE PolicyKit > authentication agent mate-polkit - MATE authentication agent for > PolicyKit-1 mate-polkit-bin - MATE authentication agent for > PolicyKit-1 (executable wrapper script) mate-polkit-common - MATE > authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 (common files) polkit-kde-agent-1 > - KDE dialogs for PolicyKit ukui-polkit - UKUI authentication agent > for PolicyKit-1 > > > > My Debian 11 Xfce has the following, installed by > debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso: > > 2022-05-14 15:13:47 root@laalaa ~ # dpkg-query -l '*polkit*' > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name > Version Architecture Description > +++-===========================-================-============-=================> > ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 GObject > introspec> > un gir1.2-polkitagent-1.0 <none> <none> (no description a> ii > libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit Authent> ii > libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit Authori> > un polkit-1-auth-agent <none> <none> (no description a>
I got it working! that's the good news, the bad news is I am not sure how. I installed all the packages above (except polkit-1-auth-agent which seems to be an unreal package) but it still didn't work. Then I went into synaptic (which incidentally did not prompt for a password) and searched for xfce and found some packages relating to the panel which were not installed, nor part of the xfce meta package. Also I installed policykit-1-gnome which unfortunately doesn't come up on searches for polkit. I think this last one may be the culprit but not sure. Thanks for your help, and the others.
