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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

With arch+xfce4 I mostly don't. Except for when I do systemctl reload in a cli without sudo and it pops a surprise elevation password request gui in my face. I haven't figured out what makes it behave like that.

I use Arch btw 👉🧐 eats booger

[-] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s the result of polkit (policy kit) authentication agents. These are typically DE-specific for their GUIs.

pkexec is comparable to sudo and can be used from the terminal to get the graphical prompt for elevated commands.

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, when I was on xfce on Arch I remember going into some places in the file manager where it wouldn't let me edit files etc without running it from the terminal through sudo.

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