What is gksu ubuntu

Adv Reply. June 4th, 2. Join Date Aug Beans 4, Re: gksudo in June 4th, 3. June 5th, 4. You may prefer that. Yes, "sudo -H" works, but so does "sudo". However, either of the two last approaches might cause issues with your graphical software, "sudo -H" less likely than sudo, may still cause issues. To play it fully safe, use pkexec. Your email address will not be published. I have a shortcut that executes a script where within the script I have a line to launch a java application, formerly I used the gksudo command to launch the application as root:.

They really did a crime by releasing gksu, now you have to juggle to install a deb package. It really is a crime what they have done. For now, I'm going back to Debian. Legitimation: Your consent Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation. I want to receive the newsletter. Share on print.

Share on email. Paul Shipley. Contact Form. Send Email. Recent Posts. April 5, We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. I am exploring Ubuntu And when I was trying to suppress the Ubuntu crash report , I tried to use a command with gksu. I was slightly surprised to find it not installed by default so I went on to install it.

And this is where my surprise turned into a shock. This made me do some little investigation and I found that gksu has been deprecated.

It was first removed from Debian and then Canonical decided to drop it from Ubuntu Application developers are suggested to use PolicyKit instead. This way graphical applications were allowed to be run with root privileges.