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johnraff

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

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johnraff

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

An alternative to mate-polkit looks likely to arrive soon, xfce-polkit:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/xfce-polkit/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1103669

We'll have to wait and see how it compares.

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

Aptitude recommends lxpolkit as the first choice for replacement:

Looks like it beats mate-polkit thanks to fewer dependencies.

EDIT: I ran a dist-upgrade from deadbang 12.10 to trixie then used this to get rid of packages no longer available from Debian's repositories:

aptitude purge ~o

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chroot

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

I remeber the default terminal is lxterminal. If yes, lxpolkit makes more sense.

johnraff

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

We considered lxpolkit too: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 50#p141150
Mate-polkit is gtk3 and looked like a smoother replacement for policykit-1-gnome and doesn't seem all that heavy.
People who prefer gtk2 should indeed check out lxpolkit.

But xfce-polkit, if it makes it to Trixie in time, might be worth considering.

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

FWIW As another option, I have just installed xfce-polkit (again on arch, sorry).  If you are able to accomplish that, xfce-polkit works well and seems extremely tiny.  Here's my start command:

/usr/lib/xfce-polkit/xfce-polkit &

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johnraff

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Re: policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian

Carbon uses mate-polkit, but xfce-polkit is now in Forky so is a candidate for our next release.

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