Synaptic doesnt start from home button xfce interface

[fehlix]

Suggest to tidy up the home. Having root-owned folder/files under home is always a source of potential issues esp. when it comes to authentication and permission conflicting situations.

[mihail_bc]

running $ synaptic-pkexec gives

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$ synaptic-pkexec 
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory

Do you have a graphical polkit agent running?

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pgrep -a polkit

nope

[Head_on_a_Stick]

OK, try installing mate-polkit and then add /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 to XFCE's startup programs:

Applications Menu → Settings → Settings Manager → Session and Startup → Application Autostart

Does /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec then work if you log out & back in again?

You could also try policykit-1-gnome, that provides /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop which could be copied to ~/.config/autostart/ (or perhaps it would be started automatically by XFCE, I'm not sure).

[dolphin_oracle]

OK, try installing mate-polkit and then add /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 to XFCE's startup programs:

Applications Menu → Settings → Settings Manager → Session and Startup → Application Autostart

Does /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec then work if you log out & back in again?

You could also try policykit-1-gnome, that provides /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop which could be copied to ~/.config/autostart/ (or perhaps it would be started automatically by XFCE, I'm not sure).

policykit-1-gnome should be preinstalled on MX.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

policykit-1-gnome should be preinstalled on MX.

Ah, thanks!

Any idea why the agent isn't running?

Or is my pgrep command nonsense?

[mihail_bc]

all is well now

did another reinstall

something might got wrong because of me so...

now everything works.

thank you all for contributing.