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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #59946
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 59946

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Patch for gnome-system-tools.

It changes all *.desktop files to execute the frontend through gksu, and adds the 'X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true' flag, so that only administrators will see the programs in the menu (this is what it looked like in dapper).

The patch to time-tool is necessary because it connects to the user's session dbus (no other g-s-t programs do), in order to poke the screensaver to not start when changing the time. Since root does not have a session bus when running though gksu, time-admin just hangs in current edgy when run as root. The patch checks if time-admin runs as root through sudo and temporarily drops the real uid to the user so that dbus_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SESSION, NULL) connects to the user's session bus.