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

[Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan gmail com>]

Hi Francesco,

On an Ubuntu system, I did something like this for our VMware Workstation / Player automation:

mv gksu gksu.orig
ln -s /usr/local/bin/gksu-polkit /usr/bin

and after that everything worked as expected with accessibility :)

Additional conf:

In  /root/.orbitrc

ORBIIOPIPv4=1
ORBIIOPUNIX=0

In /etc/sudoers (for automation we use sudo)

env_keep = "DISPLAY GTK_MODULES ORBIT_SOCKETDIR" # After env_reset

I have to try gksu-polkit on SUSE / Fedora system.

Thanks
Nagappan

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net> wrote:

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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