Hello Francesco, If you use gksu-polkit, you will not see the issue.
Related reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565536 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449159 Thanks Nagappan On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Francesco Fumanti < francesco.fuma...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > > It seems that gksu is partially incompatible to at-spi 1.28. In fact, when > at-spi is active and there is no application using it, gksu works fine; > however if there is an application using at-spi, then the GNOME desktop > stops to work properly. > > Steps to reproduce the problem: > - Enable at-spi by putting a mark into the "Enable assistive technology" > checkbox of the System -> Preferences -> Assistive Technologies control > panel. > > - Enable for example the "Trigger secondary click by holding down the > primary button" feature in the Accessibility tab of the mouse control panel; > this actively uses at-spi. > - Open the Synaptic Package Manager by using the appropriate menu item in > System -> Administration menu. After entering the password in the gksu > dialog, the Synaptic Package Manager does not work properly. > > However, if the steps above are performed without enabling the checkbox in > the Mouse control panel, the Synaptic Package Manager works properly. > This is at least what is happening on my Ubuntu 9.10 installation. > > Cheers > Francesco > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com
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