I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu.

  • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It would occasionally be handy running gparted, but for as often as I need to do that sudo gparted works just fine

    • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen people say that a few times here but any time I use gparted I get the Gnome ‘enter password’ dialog which seems to work fine.

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I’m not on Gnome, variably either Xfce or LxQt, is probably what’s making the difference there

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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          1 year ago

          Sounds like you need to install polkit for the window manager you’re using (xfce-polkit or lxqt-policykit on arch). That should enable apps to request root using the login popup.