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# lxqt-sudo
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## Overview
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lxqt-sudo is a graphical front-end of commands `sudo` and `su` respectively. As such it enables regular users to launch applications with permissions of other users including root.
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## Installation
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### Compiling source code
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Runtime dependencies are qtbase, sudo (su should be installed by default on all *ix operating systems) and [liblxqt](https://github.com/lxde/liblxqt).
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Installing at least one icon theme according to the [XDG Icon Theme Specification](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-theme-spec/) like e. g. "Oxygen Icons" is recommended to have the GUI display icons.
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Additional build dependencies are CMake and optionally Git to pull latest VCS checkouts. The localization files were outsourced to repository [lxqt-l10n](https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-l10n) so the corresponding dependencies are needed, too. Please refer to this repository's `README.md` for further information.
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Code configuration is handled by CMake. CMake variable `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` has to be set to `/usr` on most operating systems.
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To build run `make`, to install `make install` which accepts variable `DESTDIR` as usual.
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### Binary packages
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Official binary packages are provided by all major Linux distributions like Arch Linux, Debian (as of Debian stretch), Fedora and openSUSE. Just use your package manager to search for string `lxqt-sudo`.
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## Configuration
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lxqt-sudo itself does not require any configuration.
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In order to use it as front-end of `sudo` the corresponding permissions have to be set, though. Most of the time this is handled by binary `visudo` or editing configuration file `/etc/sudoers` manually which both is beyond this document's scope.
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## Usage
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lxqt-sudo comes with a man page explaining the syntax very well so running `man 1 lxqt-sudo` should get you started.
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By default `sudo` is used as backend, the choice can be enforced by command line options `--su[do]` or by using symbolic links `lxsu` and `lxsudo` which belong to regular installations of lxqt-sudo.
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