Ubuntu
gksu package

gksudo lacks frame

Bug #23988 reported by Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll on 2005-10-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gksu (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Michael Vogt

Bug Description

The modal window produced by gksudo lacks a window title and frame.
I am using the default Ubuntu theme. This way of presenting the
window is most annoying as one is sometimes unable to recognize
the presence of the modal dialog when displayed on top of, say,
a webbrowser, or evolution.

To reproduce: open a terminal window and type "gkusdo emacs"

What happens: a modal dialog without title and window frame appears

What should happen: the dialog should have a frame and a title.

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David Chart (ubuntu-davidchart) wrote on 2005-10-17:

I see the same behaviour under powerpc.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2005-12-08:

*** Bug 24529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Lars Ljung (larslj) wrote on 2006-01-28:

In the Breezy preview gksudo made the whole screen go greyish (or maybe b/w?), I kind of liked that behaviour. As it is now it's quite confusing when gksudo steals your mouse and keyboard without showing any clear signs of what's going on.

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2006-03-31

Changed in gksu:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2006-04-07:

Thanks for your bugreport.

Currently we ship with the "whole-screen-goes-gray" mode in dapper. This may change, but for now I mark the bug as "fix-released" because it is no longer a bug in dapper.

Cheers,
Michael