After that update I stopped getting GUI windows for password prompts. EDIT: So when I use something like pamac, I get prompted in the terminal. From what I’ve gathered, the prompts are provided by /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1. I see that it’s part of the polkit-gnome pa…

There has been raised concerns that pamac should follow the authorization scheme matching how it was launched. GUI → GUI authorization CLI → CLI authorization I am fairly certain this is the way it is now. And personally I think this is the correct way of handling the authorization scheme.

No GUI password prompts for pamac CLI on Gnome after 2023-03-31 update

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Takakage 20 April 2023 03:24 15

This pamac-cli feature was described in the Notable Package Updates section of the 2023-02-12 update announcement.

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