On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've googled around a bit here, but figured asking the bright minds here
> might be a good call. I know it's a bit OT, so feel free to ignore :)
>
> I'm trying to switch more of our stuff to polkit from usermode
> consolehelper (I think fedora did similar a while back) and have had
> only one problem so far where a user complained that "minimal" desktops
> don't include any authorisation agents and thus trying to launch some
> programs just fails and doesn't provide any feedback to users.
>
> IceWM, LXDE and RazorQT are affected, (although I see an lxpolkit
> package which is perhaps not installed by default and may solve it there...)
>
> Anyway, can I ask how others deal with this problem generally? Is there
> some kind of super ugly fallback polkit UI that can be started via e.g.
> dbus activation or xinit.d dropin (with whitelist for "real" desktops)?
>
> Cheers for any feedback.
>
> Col

There's polkit-gnome, which depends only on polkit and gtk2/3. I don't
think there's anything using just Xlib.
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