The zensu update to 0.3-2 destroyed the ability to open Thunar as Root and Firewall configuration (GUFW). I downgraded to 0.3-1 and it works again. I did the downgrade in terminal and I was asked to put on Ignore, which I answered “Yes”. Strange that Pamac shows version 0.3-2 is installed.
Edit: I read Pamac wrong, it is indeed showing 0.3-1 version, Darn old eyes…
That makes no sense as all that changed was merging this PR from @linux-aarhus:
Do you have yad or zenity installed (or both)?
zenity is installed, yad is not. Thunar open as root and GUFW are set as follows:
gksu dbus-run-session thunar
zensu /usr/sbin/gufw-pkexec
No - you are mistaken - as @Yochanan already pointed out.
The only change made to zensu was these lines
elif [ -e /usr/bin/zenity ] then;
PASSWD="$(zenity --password --title =Authentication)"
else
echo "Dependency not available.\n Please install at least one of: spacefm, kdialog, yad, zenity"
IF the additional check for zenity did in fact break your usage - it is revealing a flaw in how you are using the utility.
Your usage
is revealing lack of understanding for the processes involved and it looks like they are a result of a lucky guess on how to achieve the deprecated and discouraged actions of running graphical application as root.
gksu has been deprecated for years - use pkexec is the way forward.
If you must launch thunar as root then launch it using pkexec
pkexec thunar
Note that not all applications can be launched this way as it requires the presence of a polikit rule for the application.
These links are to the archived forum FAQ
Thanks for the links. I allowed the upgrade to zensu 0.3-2. I have read the above and will initiate thunar root through terminal. No big deal there.
sudo thunar works, but pkexec thunar throws up the following:
pkexec thunar [1]
thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(thunar:11236): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:46:59.235: cannot open display:
Is there any solution to the d-bus error?. I do have dbus-x11 installed here.
This happens to work:
pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY thunar
I cannot get the Firewall Configuration launcher in whisker menu to launch GUFW. In terminal sudo gufw-pkexec works. Is there a way to get the launcher to work? I had seen an older post which involved modifying /usr/bin/ gufw and gufw-pkexec, but it seems like the fixes mentioned have been implemented.
bleck. please stop 'sudo file-manger’ing.
as to gufw … is it broken again ? or still?
Does this work?
pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY gufw-pkexec
*(old thread: GUFW Firewall not opening - #6 by cscs)
Yes the above works, but the launcher does not work with that command. pkexec thunar or pkexec thunar %f throw up the error listed above, however, when I issue
pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY thunar %d Thunar opens properly. Is there a way to fix it so pkexec works without env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY ?
it works on my system - check you have a polkit daemon running.
polkit service is running:
systemctl status polkit.service
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-10-22 07:09:26 EDT; 2h 44min ago
Docs: man:polkit(8)
Main PID: 1333 (polkitd)
Tasks: 12 (limit: 9371)
Memory: 19.5M
CPU: 1.275s
CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service
└─1333 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
Oct 22 08:05:41 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain TEMPORARY authoriz>
Oct 22 08:06:52 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:07:07 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:07:50 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:08:08 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:13:24 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:14:23 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:14:58 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 08:17:41 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza>
Oct 22 09:37:01 Dell15R polkitd[1333]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:jrichard to gain ONE-SHOT authoriza
Then the auth screen comes up:
Then I get this:
~ >>> pkexec thunar
thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(thunar:42986): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:55:37.706: cannot open display:
creating an alias in .zshrc has fixed the pkexec thunar issue for me.
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