[SOLVED]Root Privilege Command in Openbox Menu

This is my first post as a arch user, and I just thought I would start by saying hi!!!
Anyway, I have recently moved from CrunchBang linux 9.04 to Arch linux. I have setup an openbox session as my default. I have gotten everything to work so far except for one thing:
Lets say you something to the openbox menu, like gparted. Gparted requires root privilege to run. Under ubuntu/debian, I would simply use "gksu gparted" as the command because that would prompt me for the password and then run the program. I am not aware of any way to do such a thing in arch linux. Is there a simple way to do this?
-thanks
Last edited by Dr Belka (2010-04-04 17:54:48)

You're in Arch country now, boy. You want fancy gksu, you pacMAN up and install it.
Also note gksu comes with gksudo so you can use your password rather than roots - assuming you're in the sudoers file.
Last edited by Mardoct (2010-04-04 17:53:15)

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<action name="DesktopRight"><dialog>no</dialog><wrap>no</wrap></action>
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<action name="DesktopUp"><dialog>no</dialog><wrap>no</wrap></action>
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<action name="Unfocus"/>
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<action name="ShowMenu"><menu>client-menu</menu></action>
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<keybind key="A-Tab">
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<keybind key="A-S-Tab">
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
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<action name="ToggleShade"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
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<mousebind button="Middle" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeVert"/>
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Click">
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<context name="Close">
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<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
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<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="Close"/>
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<context name="Desktop">
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<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
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<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
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<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
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<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
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<item label="Inkscape">
<action name="Execute">
<command>inkscape</command>
<startupnotify>
<enabled>yes</enabled>
</startupnotify>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="system-menu" label="System">
<item label="Openbox Configuration Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>obconf</command>
<startupnotify><enabled>yes</enabled></startupnotify>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Gnome Control Center">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gnome-control-center</command>
<startupnotify><enabled>yes</enabled></startupnotify>
</action>
</item>
<item label="KDE Control Center">
<action name="Execute">
<command>kcontrol</command>
<startupnotify><enabled>yes</enabled></startupnotify>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Xfce Settings">
<action name="Execute">
<command>xfce-setting-show</command>
<startupnotify><enabled>yes</enabled></startupnotify>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Manage Cups Printers">
<action name="Execute">
<command>xdg-open http://localhost:631/</command>
<startupnotify>
<enabled>no</enabled>
<icon>cups</icon>
</startupnotify>
</action>
</item>
<separator />
<item label="Reconfigure Openbox">
<action name="Reconfigure" />
</item>
<item label="Exit Openbox">
<action name="Exit">
<prompt>yes</prompt>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
<separator label="Applications" />
<menu id="apps-accessories-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-editors-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-graphics-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-net-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-office-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-multimedia-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-term-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-fileman-menu"/>
<separator label="System" />
<menu id="system-menu"/>
<separator />
<item label="Log Out">
<action name="SessionLogout">
<prompt>yes</prompt>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>
autostart.sh
# This shell script is run before Openbox launches.
# Environment variables set here are passed to the Openbox session.
# Set a background color
BG=""
if which hsetroot >/dev/null; then
BG=hsetroot
else
if which esetroot >/dev/null; then
BG=esetroot
else
if which xsetroot >/dev/null; then
BG=xsetroot
fi
fi
fi
test -z $BG || $BG -solid "#303030"
# D-bus
if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi
# Make GTK apps look and behave how they were set up in the gnome config tools
if test -x /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null; then
/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
elif which gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null; then
gnome-settings-daemon &
# Make GTK apps look and behave how they were set up in the XFCE config tools
elif which xfce-mcs-manager >/dev/null; then
xfce-mcs-manager n &
fi
# Preload stuff for KDE apps
if which start_kdeinit >/dev/null; then
LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup &
fi
# Run XDG autostart things. By default don't run anything desktop-specific
# See xdg-autostart --help more info
DESKTOP_ENV=""
if which /usr/lib/openbox/xdg-autostart >/dev/null; then
/usr/lib/openbox/xdg-autostart $DESKTOP_ENV
fi
pypanel &
eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
setxkbmap se
conky
I don´t know really what info you need to help me but please let me know what you need and I will get it for you.
I want my Openbox back
/Neuwerld
Last edited by neuwerld (2009-03-25 17:35:59)

neuwerld wrote:
Ohh thanks guys!
It worked as a charm, and thanks Brisbin33 for the autostart.sh tip.
So the thing that caused my whole system not to work as it should was that I forgot to put a "&" after conky?
haha that´s kinda anoying I have been sitting and looking through like a milllion files looking for the answer
But again, really thanks!
/Neuwerld
that little "&" sends the conky process to the background freeing up the current process (your autostart.sh script) to finish doing what it's doing so you can move on to running openbox itself. with this in mind, it should be obvious why keeping conky in the foreground would cause problems.
also, replacing it with (sleep 1 && conky) & means... wait a second, when that's done successfully (&&) run conky, and put all of that () to the background. that way openbox comes up immediatly and only a second later you've got your panel and monitor.
all this after .xinitrc and before openbox

Obm-xdg won't show anything in the Openbox menu [SOLVED]

I put the code:
<menu execute="obm-xdg" id="obm-xdg" label="xdg"/>
in ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml just like it says to do universally. It does not show any menu. Every other menu item in the file works. I can edit them and they change. obmenu can see the entry. gnome-menus is installed. obm-xdg works from the command line. Why does this not show anything in the menu?
Last edited by skottish (2008-11-06 05:27:03)

Make sure you add the menu id to the root-menu list at the bottom of menu.xml:
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
<separator label="Applications" />
<menu id="obm-xdg" />
<menu id="apps-accessories-menu"/>
<menu id="apps-editors-menu"/>
Last edited by thayer (2008-11-06 05:11:29)

"Running" openbox menu?[SOLVED]

Is it possible to issue a command to open the root openbox menu(then menu that pops open on desktop right click)? I want to use that as a button in pypanel... Thanks for your time in advance.
Last edited by isolier (2009-01-24 17:56:45)

I asked myself the same question and found a great application called xdotool. I added it on AUR. One of its usage is to simulate a keypress. Simply add this code somewhere in the <keyboard> section of your rc.xml:
<keybind key="A-C-q">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>root-menu</menu>
</action>
</keybind>
Then, just lauch your menu with:
# xdotool key ctrl+alt+q
A launcher in pypanel would look something like this:
LAUNCH_LIST = [
("xdotool key ctrl+alt+q", "/usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.png"),
Of course, you can change the keyboard shortcut, etc...
Hope this helps.
-T
Last edited by rttommy (2008-01-30 00:23:26)

[SOLVED] Strange Openbox menu behaviour

Hi,
so, I've searched the forums in order to find a solution for my problem, but not found anythihg that works for me. So, problem is that my openbox menu won't execute any commands that I add to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml file. After editing that file, I run
openbox --reconfigure
command (no any error messages), but again, it simply won't execute the command that I've written. I have also changed permissions, so that I have read/write access. But, strange is that if I delete menus in menu.xml that I don't need, save those changes, and run reconfigure command, those menus are not any more in openbox menu, just as it should be.
It seems that only commands that I want to execute will not work. I' ve also installed obmenu and tried editing stuff there, but again the same problem-deleting menus works fine, but executing commands not. It is obviously that problem is not in obmenu, but in menu.xml file or somewhere else, but I don't know
where.
So, any ideas? Did someone experienced the same problem and found a solution? All ideas are welcome
Last edited by brunux (2010-05-09 16:32:54)

In my menu.xml all the programs are surrounded by <command></command> tags instead of <execute></execute>tags.
I've tried with your suggestion, but it doesn't work. For example, running firefox works fine with <command></command> tags, but it is the default
part of the code, where I didn't change anything.
<item label="Firefox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>firefox</command>
<startupnotify>
<enabled>yes</enabled>
<wmclass>Firefox</wmclass>
</startupnotify>
</action>
</item>

Which command we use to check root privileged users in solaris

Hi,
please tell me ,if i want to check the number of people using super user privilege in the sun solaris server .how we can find that ? ,is there any command to find that ?
please reply me
boby

there is few ways to use root privileges
- login as root or as user with UID 0
- login as ordinary user and do su - . In this case check group ownership of su file and pam config
- use sudo command - check sudo config file

[SOLVED] Freezing while executing /usr/bin/openbox from Openbox menu

I'm following the instructions in this webpage to create a dynamic menu. I have successfully achieved this on my laptop by installing the openbox-menu package and typing the following lines in menu.xml:
<menu id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications" execute="/usr/bin/openbox-menu lxde-applications.menu" />
For some reason, the same doesn't work on my desktop PC. After editing and saving the menu.xml file, I restart Openbox and when I right click the desktop and hover the "Applications" menu item the desktop freezes. However, I can still move the mouse and switch to other ttys with Ctrl+Alt+Fx, therefore I believe it's reasonable to suggest that the problem lies in the permissions.
What should I do about it?
Last edited by Martificiam (2013-02-03 11:29:21)

Umm, that's not "some random" webpage at all... It worked on all of my Arch Linux installations. The "lxde-applications.menu" is just an argument. But thanks for the link, I'll look into it.
It's just that it's more of a workaround, not a solution, really... since it has ALWAYS worked for me.
Furthermore, while setting up Arch on my laptop I remember experiencing similar problems (running a particular program from the openbox menu and resulting in a desktop freeze). This must have something to do with permissions.
Edit: the xdg_menu worked perfectly, but I would still prefer to use the openbox-menu. I'm marking this as solved anyway.
Last edited by Martificiam (2013-02-03 11:29:06)

[SOLVED] Openbox-menu saying Menu not found...

Hello all,
I installed Arch with Openbox. For the menu, I want to use openbox-menu to see my Applications.
In menu.xml, I put the line:
<menu execute="openbox-menu" id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications"/>
But when I point it in the menu, I get:
Menu not found. Please specify a menu specification file.
I get the same result in Terminal either as a user or as root.
These are the "menu" packages I have installed:
[philippe@phil-bureau ~]$ pacman -Qs menu
local/dmenu-xft 4.5-1
Dynamic X menu - with xft support
local/gnome-menus 3.2.0.1-1
GNOME menu specifications
local/gnome-menus2 3.0.1-1
GNOME menu specifications
local/libdbusmenu-qt 0.9.0-2
A library that provides a Qt implementation of the DBusMenu spec
local/lxmenu-data 0.1.2-1 (lxde)
freedesktop.org desktop menus for LXDE
local/menu-cache 0.3.2-1 (lxde)
Caches to speed up freedesktop.org's application menus use.
local/obmenu 1.0-9
Openbox menu editor.
local/openbox-menu 0.3.6.6-1
Dynamic XDG menu for openbox
local/openbox-xdgmenu 0.3-2
fast xdg-menu converter to xml-pipe-menu
Any help/ideas/suggestions are welcome!
Thanks
Philippe
Last edited by Philippe1 (2012-02-17 16:30:22)

Hey guys, thanks for the quick response!
Openbox-menu comes from AUR and the menu.xml is a copy of my Archbang installation. And yes, openbox-menu works like a charm on Archbang. So what am I missing?
Here is the menu.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://openbox.org/ file:///usr/share/openbox/menu.xsd">
<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3.5">
<item label="Fichiers">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
nautilus
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Internet">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
chromium
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Minitube">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
minitube
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Jeux de cartes">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
pysol
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="LibreOffice Writer">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
libreoffice -writer
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="LibreOffice Calc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
libreoffice -calc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Terminal">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
sakura
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<separator/>
<menu execute="openbox-menu" id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications"/>
<menu execute="~/.config/openbox/pipemenus/obpipemenu-places ~/" id="places" label="Places"/>
<menu execute="~/.config/openbox/pipemenus/obrecent.sh ~/" id="recent" label="Recent Files"/>
<menu id="Preferences" label="Preferences">
<menu id="root-menu-90523" label="Conky Config">
<item label="Edit .conkyrc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
leafpad ~/.conkyrc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Restart Conky">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
conkywonky
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-891528" label="Eye Candy">
<item label="No effects">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh unset
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh set
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency, fading">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh setshaded
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Transparency, fading shadows">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh setshadowshade
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-525118" label="Openbox Config">
<item label="Edit autostart">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
leafpad ~/.config/openbox/autostart
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GUI Menu Editor">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
obmenu
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GUI Config Tool">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
obconf
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Key Editor">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
obkey
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Reconfigure">
<action name="Reconfigure"/>
</item>
<item label="Restart">
<action name="Restart"/>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-23433" label="Take Screenshot">
<item label="Now">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="In 5 Seconds...">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot -d 5 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="In 10 Seconds...">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot -d 10 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Selected Area... (click & drag mouse)">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/ & geeqie ~/$f'
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="root-menu-571948" label="tint2 config">
<item label="Edit tint2rc">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
leafpad ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Tint Wizard">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
tintwizard.py
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<item label="Edit /etc/rc.conf">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
sudo leafpad /etc/rc.conf
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Input Device Preferences">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
lxinput
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Screen Resolution">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
arandr
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="User Interface Settings">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
lxappearance
</execute>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Wallpaper">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
nitrogen
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<separator/>
<item label="Exit">
<action name="Execute">
<execute>
oblogout
</execute>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>
Thanks again!

[Solved] gmrun & Openbox menu can't launch program but bash can.

Hey there.
Got myself a bit of a confusing problem. I recently installed the latest of Natron, in /opt/Natron, and added the path to the PATH variable in the .bashrc file, and i can launch it if I'm on bash, but gmrun and the Openbox menu can't locate the executable when I try to launch it from there. Which is weird, because when i was adding it the Natron directory to the path when it wasn't in the .bashrc, i could then launch Natron just fine from gmrun. Anyone know why this is the case? Any help is appreciated.
Last edited by anark10n (2015-02-22 16:35:17)

.bashrc is only sourced when starting an interactive shell, whereas .bash_profile is sourced when you log in. Try adding the PATH export to your .bash_profile, then log out and back in.

Kde4.10 system settings doesn't works without root privileges (SOLVED)

After update to version 4.10.0-1 systemsettings only works with root privileges. When I launch the application as a normal user window opens but nothing happens when I click any option. Is this a bug?
Last edited by vovotux (2013-02-17 17:35:04)

I had tried it. The output on konsole is "QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave" what seems to be a generic error message concerning a problem in implementing the PoliceKit. Closing the window the output message is "systemsettings(1780)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:"
Given that the application works correctly when using kdesu systemsettings, I think that it is a permission issue.

HOWTO: Openbox Menu Icon in PyPanel

Using Openbox and PyPanel (or similar) and are tired of either having to minimize windows or adjust maximum window size to leave space for right-clicking on the desktop? Do you have a keyboard shortcut set up to open the menu, but also want to be able to use the mouse to open the menu easier? I have a solution!
Create an icon to launch the Openbox application menu on PyPanel.
This will allow you to click on an icon on PyPanel which opens the OpenBox menu, similar to Gnome's application menu.
Example:
Requirements:
Openbox Window Manager
PyPanel (dock/panel application)
xdotool
obkey - to edit key shortcuts to OpenBox's rc.xml (not required, but used in this howto)
Recommendations:
archlinux-artwork
Procedure:
1) If you don't already have PyPanel installed, install it now (as root).
pacman -S pypanel
2) Launch pypanel in an application launcher, or the terminal (as normal user):
pypanel &&
3) Install xdotool (allows for launching keyboard shortcuts via command line) (as root)
pacman -S xdotool
4) If you do not have obkey installed, install it with yaourt (recommended) or download the tar.gz and run the python script:
yaourt -S obkey-git
OR
Go to the obkey site or download the .tar.gz by clicking here
Extract the .tar.gz:
tar -xvf ./obkey-dev-abf0bb12.tar.gz
Enter the obkey-dev directory:
cd ./obkey-dev
Run obkey and point it to the openbox rc.xml (as normal user!):
./obkey ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
5) In obkey, find an existing key or create a new key binding by clicking "Insert sibling key" at the top. Note: Ctrl+alt combinations did not seem to work for me to create this menu launcher.
- If it's an existing key, select it, then click on the action in the bottom right-hand pane. A window should pop up. Find and select "ShowMenu"
- If it's a new key, select it, enter in the key combination you want to use in the key (text) box (for example, C-M for Ctrl+M), then click the green "Insert Action" button at the bottom. Click on the new "Focus" action. A window should pop up. Find and select "ShowMenu"
In the ShowMenu action, at the top there should be a box for "menu:" Enter in "root-menu" in this box.
Now save by clicking the green arrow + hard drive in the top left corner of obkey. Now you should be able to use that key combination to open the root-menu. If not, try restarting the X Server.
Example:
6) This is optional, but if you want a nice Arch icon for your new menu launcher, you can grab mine. If you want to use your own image, it cannot be .svg, so I converted a .svg icon to .png from the the official Arch Artwork package (archlinux-artwork in the repos). If you want to just use mine:
Enter the following commands to get the image and set it up for the next step:
mkdir ~/.icons/archlinux/icons/
wget -P ~/.icons/archlinux/icons/ http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1378/archlinuxiconcrystal128.png
7) Open up your ~/.pypanelrc with your favorite text editor (e.g. nano or gedit).
Scroll down to a line starting with "LAUNCH_LIST" Most likely it will have a line like this by default:
("gimp-2.2", "/usr/share/imlib2/data/images/paper.png")
Change the line to the following to use xdotool and the key you assigned in step 5, as well as the icon image we just downloaded (Note: make sure to change /home/user to your specific home directory!):
("xdotool key ctrl+m", "/home/user/.icons/archlinux/icons/archlinuxiconcrystal128.png")
Next, locate a line about 15 more down starting with "APPICONS." Change this value from 0 to 1.
APPICONS = 1 # Show application icons
Finally, about 20 lines down, you will see a section for Panel Layout.
There are 5 sections for the panel: Desktop, Tasks, Tray, Clock, and Launcher. They can be assigned, in order of left to right on the panel, with numbers 1-5 and 0 for disabled. Choose a location you want your Launcher to be and set the value from 1-5. You can play around with this by setting the values, then restarting pypanel.
Here is how I have set mine (I disabled Desktop since I only use one desktop/workspace and do not need it to say which one I am on):
DESKTOP = 0 # Desktop name section
TASKS = 2 # Task names section
TRAY = 3 # System tray section
CLOCK = 4 # Clock section
LAUNCHER = 1 # Application launcher section
8) Finally, kill and restart PyPanel and enjoy!
killall pypanel && pypanel
9) Tell me how it went, what you think, what I could improve on, etc!
Last edited by CheesyBeef (2009-03-24 22:22:39)

Vighi wrote:
Very nice guide got it working almost straight away :-)
Had to restart X in order to get key-binding to work though. And I put /home/username/.icons/archlinux/icons/archlinuxiconcrystal128.png instead of ~/ because somehow I got couldn't find logo error when pypanel started.
BTW sexy pypanel look you have. All the info in your .dotfiles link? will get to it tomorrow I guess. Thanks!
Thanks very much for using my guide and responding!
I will fix that ~/ directory problem and say to use the home directory.
And yes, that configuration is in my .dotfiles at the moment You can follow that link or just grab it here: http://dotfiles.org/~CheesyBeef/.pypanelrc
Thanks again!

Shaman doesn't ask for root password. But gets root privileges!!

As the title says:
Shaman is launched as a reguler user, never asks for root password, but still i able to install and uninstall packages.
Either something in my system is seriously fucked, or there is a major securiy problem with shaman.
Running openbox, installed shaman while running gnome, if that has anythiung to say. Sudo is not installed.
Output from running shaman in terminal:
[gert@flyktig ~]$ shaman
This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
GTK+ does not allow this therefore Qt cannot use the GTK+ integration.
Try launching your app using 'gksudo', 'kdesudo' or a similar tool.
See http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html for more information.
Translations are enabled.
Loading translations from "/usr/share/shaman/translations/"
Parsing "core"
Parser exited
Parsing "extra"
Parser exited
Parsing "community"
Parser exited
Parser exited
Log File should be: ""
"core" ---> "http://mirror.archlinux.no/core/os/i686"
"extra" ---> "http://mirror.archlinux.no/extra/os/i686"
"community" ---> "http://mirror.archlinux.no/community/os/i686"
Root privileges retired.
"/home/gert/.config/shaman/shaman.conf"
>>
>> Shaman 1.0.9
>> Compiled against Qt 4.4.1
>> Running with Qt 4.4.3
>>
>> Our website is @ http://shaman.iskrembilen.com/ , join in!!
>> You can also find a bugtracker in the website, please use it.
>>
>> Have you found a bug? Help us solving it faster! Please read
>> http://shaman.iskrembilen.com/trac/wiki/Debugging_Shaman
>> and please follow these steps to report bugs effectively!
>>
>> Starting Up Shaman...
User agent is: "shaman/1.0.9 (Linux i686) libalpm/3.1.1"
Shaman registered on the System Bus as ":1.51"
Service org.archlinux.shaman successfully exported on the System Bus.
--> UNSETENV HTTP_PROXY
--> UNSETENV FTP_PROXY
Populating Repo column
Log file is: /var/log/pacman.log
refinePkgView
The left TextBox is over, let's do the ComboBox
Show all packages
Remove Package
"Uninstall package: alunn"
"alunn"
"community"
Process Queue
Queue Dialog started
Queue signals connected
Starting Package Removal
Root Privileges granted.
Uid is: 1000
Received Event Callback
Alpm Thread Waiting.
Entering Queue Lock
Releasing Queue Lock
Alpm Thread awake.
Received Event Callback
Alpm Thread Waiting.
Entering Queue Lock
Releasing Queue Lock
Alpm Thread awake.
Received Event Callback
Alpm Thread Waiting.
Entering Queue Lock
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The point of this thread was that you don't need to enter the root password at all. Not the first time, not ever.
As far as I understand, it is supposed to work like this: When you first use shaman too install anything, it asks for the root password You can tick a "Do not ask me again"-box, so you don't have to enter the password again. If you tick the box and enter the password, shaman add the lines
[auth]
askforpwd=false
to the users shaman.conf-file (~./config/shaman/shaman.conf) The next time shaman is run, it checks the config file, and if the askforpwd value is set to false, it grants itself root privileges (with some nifty setuuid root-thingy, I imagine) This is not the problem - this is the feature.
The bug is this:
the fact that any user can add the lines
[auth]
askforpwd=false
to his own shaman.conf file, without ever entering the root password in shaman. The next time shaman is run, it checks the config file, and if the askforpwd value is set to false, it grants itself root privileges - even though the user has never entered the root password.
This works for any unprivileged user on the system.
If that is indeed a feature intended by any sane person, then I'm Mother Mary. And that can't be, seeing as I don't have breasts.

Gtkpacman & apps that require root privileges

Hello everyone.
I'm very new to Linux, having been a long time with windows adjusting is taking some time. I've been playing with Arch in a virtual machine for a while and must say I'm quite impressed, but one of the biggest differences from windows, and admittedly the thing that gives me problems most often, is permissions.
I've installed Gtkpacman, but I get an error every time I try to start it from the drop down menu in Gnome. I get something along the lines of "Cannot execute child process gksu." I assume this is because my user account needs root privileges, as I can run it with a command from the terminal, but it seems like it's missing the point if I have to be in the terminal to run the pacman graphical frontend, right?
So what I'm wondering is how do I change the settings so that when I click gtkpacman from the menu it prompts for the user password like Ubuntu does? (<--Arch is totally better than Ubuntu in every way tho)
Thanks.

Franz Kafka wrote:
Hello everyone.
I'm very new to Linux, having been a long time with windows adjusting is taking some time. I've been playing with Arch in a virtual machine for a while and must say I'm quite impressed, but one of the biggest differences from windows, and admittedly the thing that gives me problems most often, is permissions.
I've installed Gtkpacman, but I get an error every time I try to start it from the drop down menu in Gnome. I get something along the lines of "Cannot execute child process gksu." I assume this is because my user account needs root privileges, as I can run it with a command from the terminal, but it seems like it's missing the point if I have to be in the terminal to run the pacman graphical frontend, right?
So what I'm wondering is how do I change the settings so that when I click gtkpacman from the menu it prompts for the user password like Ubuntu does? (<--Arch is totally better than Ubuntu in every way tho)
Thanks.
I think you have to install sudo checkout sudo wiki page you got there all info about sudo that you need.

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