At least in OpenSuse gksu seems to be no more. After hitting a few pages and looking around I think some of you know the problem. I needed to execute a program with root privileges in gnome. No big deal if you can just fire up a console. But I needed this for my father, so I was looking for the good old gksu. But gksu is no longer part of the official repositories in OpenSuse. So I had to search the big old junkyard and found gnomesu.

The little bash script I created looked something like this:

#! /bin/bash  
gnomesu the_app ...

But it gets even better. At home my PC-Desktop is running Fedora and there you don't have gksu and neither you have gnomesu. But there seems to be something to replace them called beesu. Sometimes I really ask myself if there is really freedom in choice... but only sometimes.