How to make the gnome polkit agent run in fluxbox on AntiX-19
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4XYWH)
My friend has recently upgraded from AntiX-17 to AntiX-19. She wants to go on using synaptic for updates because she is used to it and she finds the replacement update manager confusing. So we installed synaptic and also polkit-gnome to provide her with a polkit agent for the synaptic-pkexec script. The desktop is fluxbox.
When the agent is started by hand, it runs normally and she can launch synaptic from an icon that I created for her. But when I put it into either .fluxbox/startup or .xinitrc it apparently fails to launch. I cannot find it in the output of ps ax and synaptic cannot be launched from the icon. The synaptic-pkexec script can be launched from a terminal but this is a rather clumsy fix.
The problem seems to be fluxbox-specific. I also have AntiX-19 on a laptop with icewm as my window manager and the gnome polkit agent set to launch from .icewm/startup and it works faultlessly.
There are reports of similar problems in several distros associated with recent polkit changes but I could not find a workable solution.
When the agent is started by hand, it runs normally and she can launch synaptic from an icon that I created for her. But when I put it into either .fluxbox/startup or .xinitrc it apparently fails to launch. I cannot find it in the output of ps ax and synaptic cannot be launched from the icon. The synaptic-pkexec script can be launched from a terminal but this is a rather clumsy fix.
The problem seems to be fluxbox-specific. I also have AntiX-19 on a laptop with icewm as my window manager and the gnome polkit agent set to launch from .icewm/startup and it works faultlessly.
There are reports of similar problems in several distros associated with recent polkit changes but I could not find a workable solution.