Using GParted via TigerVNC how to enable on LinuxMint?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bo Berglund writes:

> On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:39:57 -0500, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> This is what I see then, don't know what it means:
> >>
> >> $ gparted
> >> Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found.
> >>
> >> What "another user"????
> >
> >Did you try searching for the exact error message text on www.google.com?
>
> I did now and I don't understand German so it does not help much on the  
> German
> pages...
> Google translate gives very strange results too.
>
> >The first three search results explain, in detail, the reason for this
> >specific error, specifically with gparted.
>
> Maybe Google sends me different hits so the number is different?

There are many more results, I skimmed through only the first three.

> Can you please post the URL to the respective pages you refer to?
>
> Mine are :
> 1) https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=151810
> 2) https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=176725
> 3)
> https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/wsl2-eine-bruecke-zwischen-windows- 
> und-linux-einblick-aus-der-perspektive-eines-linux-nutzers.2172909/
> This 3rd link requires me to understand German and accept an undisclosed  
> number
> of cookies. That is a no-starter for me.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175895
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2492780
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=151810

> >You can compare the installed packages and configuration files on both
> >systems, and figure out the differences in your case.
> >
> Don't know which configuration files you mean...

The thread from the third link references the contents of /etc/polkit-1/


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