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wisemagic

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From: Louisiana U.S.A.

Registered: 2011-09-17

Posts: 37

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Custom Actions

Hello

Thinking about upgrading to Debian 10. Still testing, and probably won't upgrade...... but

gksu has been depreciated and no longer in the repository

In Stretch I use medit.

gksu medit %f

to edit root files

I tried to

pkexec medit %f and it fails
pkexec mousepad %f and it fails

Any suggestions?

Also
pkexec thunar %F DOES work

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Custom Actions

You need to have a corresponding policykit action file for each program. Usually these are saved in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions. Here is the english-only version for mousepad:

# cat /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.xfce.mousepad.policy

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>  

 <vendor>Mousepad</vendor>
 <vendor_url>http://xfce.org/</vendor_url>
 <icon_name>accessories-text-editor</icon_name>

 <action id="org.xfce.mousepad">
 
 <description>Run Mousepad as root</description>
 <message>Authentication is required to run Mousepad as root.</message>

 <defaults>
 <allow_any>no</allow_any>
 <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
 <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active>
 </defaults>
 <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/mousepad</annotate>
 <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
 </action>

</policyconfig>

You'd need a similar one for medit.

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wisemagic

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From: Louisiana U.S.A.

Registered: 2011-09-17

Posts: 37

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Re: Custom Actions

Thanks ToZ