• Mohamed@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Some do. I’m sure it is possible with terminal programs. In KDE, you do get authenticator pop-ups.

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      15 hours ago

      With arch+xfce4 I mostly don’t. Except for when I do systemctl reload <service> in a cli without sudo and it pops a surprise elevation password request gui in my face. I haven’t figured out what makes it behave like that.

      I use Arch btw 👉🧐 eats booger

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        25 minutes ago

        That’s the result of polkit (policy kit) authentication agents. These are typically DE-specific for their GUIs.

        pkexec is comparable to sudo and can be used from the terminal to get the graphical prompt for elevated commands.