Hi Tod; Yea, that was me. I got it going -- kind of. On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:52 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Trying to get zenity to work as a substitute for gksudo. It won't > > when launched from a desktop launcher or nautilus script. (For > > details either see an earlier post from me, or ask and I will > > re-post the details) > > I thought I saw a thread on the gnome users list about this last week > and it seemed like you got things working. What is broken about using > zenity (other than being an extra several steps above just using gksu > if it were available)? > > I do see that gksu/gksudo is on the Extras wishlist[1]. So all you > have to do is find someone that wants to package it and maintain it. > Care to give that a try? I don't use either so I wouldn't want to > maintain them, but I'd be more than happy to try to help you get them > packaged if you want to submit them to Extras. > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/WishList I got a few of my own stupidities straightened out and everything works beautifully with zenity (in fact I can do quite a bit including a rough debug) in a terminal, however my script will still not launch from a desktop launcher or nautilus-script. I have googled and asked for a week and the only consistent answer I get is "use gksudo/gksu". I have nothing against them - I don't even know them - but it seemed to me since I've got zenity and like its cute little ways, I should see if I can make it do what I want. If that doesn't work then forget zenity and lets get gksudo/gksu working. My problem is I am a beginner. I am not confident that I would get all the bits and pieces (libraries) required to make gksudo/gksu work smoothly no matter how they were launched or used in a script in Fedora. -- Regards Bill
