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When I type gksu nautilus (or any application), the password screen appears but I cannot enter password as the password input field is not available. Please see the screenshot below:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2917/3413 … e0bc_b.jpg
The text field is not clickable i.e. cursor doesnot appears when I click in it. Also, sudo returns:
[ali@alipc8100]: ~>$ sudo nautilus
[sudo] password for ali:
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(nautilus:2040): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
[ali@alipc8100]: ~>$
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Last edited by WorMzy (2017-04-21 11:44:58)
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I sort of solved my problem from this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=221346.
I went into Nautilus/Files and enter in the location bar (open it with ctrl+L):
admin:///
A password prompt will open, and after entering your password, you can browse and edit everything with root rights. If you open now for example the /etc/default/grub file from Nautilus/Files, Gedit/Texteditor will ask you for your password again. Now you can edit this file with root rights.
This is a problem with wayland but I still want use gksu or sudo if that's possible. Hope any advance user can explain it better.
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You may want to watch this bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50314
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
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I know this question was posted a long time ago, but I ran into the same problem and found an easy solution.
By adding the "--disable-grab" argument, I was able to type the password.
So full command I used was:
gksudo baobab --disable-grab
Last edited by freko247 (2018-02-28 08:01:52)
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Thanks, for sharing, however since the original post specifically mentioned wayland, it's likely that that is irrelevant to the original issue.
Closing this old thread now.
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