<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> meanwhile I changed installation and set a suid-bit for this program. An answer to this question is not longer important.. but I'm sure that I saw on a GNOME desktop also programs starting which ask for the root password. Either there is a already an desktop independent way for the functionality of " X-KDE-SubstituteUID" or there should be one.. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="78">best regards, harald </pre> Harald Nikolisin schrieb: <blockquote cite="mid45D429DC.6050109@sofistik.de" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> hi, maybe it's not related directly to this mailinglist. but I don't know a better place to ask. I install one desktop program which should be executed as root. I use X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true in the .desktop file which does not work on GNOME. Does anybody knows an replacement for this entry? <pre class="moz-signature" cols="78">-- mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards Dipl.-Ing. Harald Nikolisin SOFiSTiK AG Entwicklung / Development <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.sofistik.de">www.sofistik.de</a> / <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.sofistik.com">www.sofistik.com</a> Vorstände: Dr. Casimir Katz, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Fink Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Johannes Harl (Vorsitz) Sitz: Oberschleißheim, Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 129 710 </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Portland@lists.freedesktop.org">Portland@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>