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#1 2022-04-28 06:32:33
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How to make GUI sudo (Gnome polkit) work over XRDP?
The DE is XFCE. I have set up RDP using xrdp and xorgxrdp. My .xinitrc file's content is one line:
exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax startxfce4
When I tried to run pamac GUI, I could not access the preferences, because it says "Authentication Failed" instead of showing that password dialogue. After some web searching, I found that gnome-polkit needs to be running. But when I ran `/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1` in the terminal inside of an RDP session, it printed the following and exited:
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1053): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: 06:26:17.405: Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 1053
How can I make this password input GUI work over RDP? Of course, the password GUI shows up in local session (physical monitor of the computer, not over RDP).
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#2 2022-04-29 03:46:19
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Re: How to make GUI sudo (Gnome polkit) work over XRDP?
Eh. That thing worked out-of-the-box with Gnome DE. I guess I will go with Gnome instead of XFCE. Sure, I could save a lot of RAM with XFCE, but all these time spending to get things work on XFCE is defeating the saving.
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#3 2022-04-29 11:34:40
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Re: How to make GUI sudo (Gnome polkit) work over XRDP?
Your .xinitrc is incorrect and missing vital sections.
Please read...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc
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