[Gambas-user] No Graphical sudo program found

[Brian G]

Sorry Bruce I use it very often with a graphical front end...
Almost every management app uses sudo -A
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Thanks
Brian G Thursday, 30 December 2021, 09:32AM -08:00 from Bruce Steers  bsteers4 at gmail.com :

>RunAsRoot is a "Graphical" launcher.
>same as using pkexec or gksudo or kdesudo
>
>not for using the sudo command for a terminal application.
>
>sudo is a terminal command not a graphical application
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>sudo apt-get 
>must be run through a terminal not a graphical launcher.
>
>possibly this would work...
>Desktop.RunAsRoot("mate-terminal --command 'sudo apt-get autoclean'")
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>BruceS
>
>
>On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 15:13, Gianluigi < bagonergi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi Benoit and All,
>>
>>one of our friend of the Italian Forum, using this code:
>>
>>Desktop.RunAsRoot("sudo apt-get autoclean")
>>
>>Gets this answer:
>>
>>No Graphical sudo program found
>>
>>What can we say to him?
>>
>>Here the system information: (*)
>>
>>Regards
>>Gianluigi
>>(*)
>>[ System ]
>>Gambas=3.15.2
>>OperatingSystem=Linux
>>Kernel=5.10.0-10-amd64
>>Architecture=x86_64
>>Distribution=Debian
>>Desktop=MATE
>>Theme=fusion
>>Language=it_IT.UTF-8
>>Memory=3801M
>>
>>[Libraries]
>>Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11600.0
>>Curl=libcurl.so.4.7.0
>>DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.19.13
>>GDK2=libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33
>>GDK3=libgdk-3.so.0.2404.20
>>GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.1804.0
>>GTK+2=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33
>>GTK+3=libgtk-3.so.0.2404.20
>>OpenGL=libGL.so.1.7.0
>>Poppler=libpoppler.so.102.0.0
>>QT5=libQt5Core.so.5.15.2
>>SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
>>SQLite=libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
>>
>>[Environment]
>>CLUTTER_IM_MODULE=ibus
>>DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
>>DESKTOP_SESSION=lightdm-xsession
>>DISPLAY=:0
>>GB_GUI=gb.qt5
>>GDMSESSION=lightdm-xsession
>>GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE=/usr/share/applications/gambas3.desktop
>>GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID=154545
>>GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
>>GTK3_MODULES=xapp-gtk3-module
>>GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
>>GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
>>GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
>>HOME=/home/
>>LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
>>LC_ALL=it_IT.UTF-8
>>LOGNAME=
>>MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
>>PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>>PWD=/home/
>>QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
>>QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
>>QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
>>QT_LOGGING_RULES=*.debug=false
>>QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1
>>SESSION_MANAGER=local/:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/3866,unix/:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3866
>>SHELL=/bin/bash
>>SSH_AGENT_PID=4034
>>SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
>>TZ=:/etc/localtime
>>USER=
>>XAUTHORITY=/home//.Xauthority
>>XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=MATE
>>XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/mate:/home//.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
>>XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm/data/
>>XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
>>XDG_SEAT=seat0
>>XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
>>XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
>>XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=lightdm-xsession
>>XDG_SESSION_ID=1
>>XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
>>XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
>>XDG_VTNR=7
>>XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
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