Re: gksu partially incompatible to at-spi (not the new dbus at-spi)

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hi Nagappan,

Thanks for the information about the work around. 

Could you please tell me what happens if I install it? Will it replace the gksu dialog that appears when choosing an application that requires root privileges from the System menu? If I have to call it from terminal, I can continue to call those application with sudo. 

Cheers 

Francesco 



Nagappan Alagappan wrote:
> Hello Francesco,
>
> If you use gksu-polkit, you will not see the issue.
>
> Related reference:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565536
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449159
>
> Thanks
> Nagappan
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Francesco Fumanti 
> <francesco fumanti gmx net <mailto:francesco fumanti gmx net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>
>     It seems that gksu is partially incompatible to at-spi 1.28. In
>     fact, when at-spi is active and there is no application using it,
>     gksu works fine; however if there is an application using at-spi,
>     then the GNOME desktop stops to work properly.
>
>     Steps to reproduce the problem:
>     - Enable at-spi by putting a mark into the "Enable assistive
>     technology" checkbox of the System -> Preferences -> Assistive
>     Technologies control panel.
>
>     - Enable for example the "Trigger secondary click by holding down
>     the primary button" feature in the Accessibility tab of the mouse
>     control panel; this actively uses at-spi.
>     - Open the Synaptic Package Manager by using the appropriate menu
>     item in System -> Administration menu. After entering the password
>     in the gksu dialog, the Synaptic Package Manager does not work
>     properly.
>
>     However, if the steps above are performed without enabling the
>     checkbox in the Mouse control panel, the Synaptic Package Manager
>     works properly.
>     This is at least what is happening on my Ubuntu 9.10 installation.
>
>     Cheers
>     Francesco
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