lxqt-sudo(1)

💖 lxqt-sudo — the LXQt Module era 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to lxqt-sudo, a little page from the LXQt Module corner of the universe, and honestly? she's iconic for one very specific reason: she makes asking for a password not be a whole ✨terminal✨ moment. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

lxqt-sudo, lxsu, lxdoas — execute a command as privileged user 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lxqt-sudo option [command [arguments]]
lxsu [option] [command [arguments]]
lxsudo [option] [command [arguments]]
lxdoas [option] [command [arguments]]

no cap, that's the whole vibe. three symlinks, four ways to summon her 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

lxqt-sudo (and its symlinks lxsu, lxsudo, lxdoas) is a graphical QT frontend for plain sudo(8), su(1) or doas(1) — like, it's the glow-up that lets you get your optional password requested in GUI fashion instead of squinting at a terminal prompt 🎀

when you invoke it, it literally just spawns a child sudo, su or doas process with the requested command (and optional arguments). and if sudo/su/doas asks for the user's password? boom 💥 the GUI password dialog shows up, and after you submit, the password is provided to the backend. the way that she just… handles it for you. obsessed 🫶

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

option is one of these, and yes, each one is a whole personality:

• -h, --help — print help. your girl is being helpful, as always 💖
• -v, --version — print version information. iykyk, you gotta know which era you're in ⭐
• -q, --quiet — make lxqt-sudo less verbose. she's giving ✨mysterious✨, minimal words, maximum power 🤫
• -s, --su — use su as backend (default for lxqt-sudo & lxsudo is sudo, for lxsu su, for lxdoas doas) 🌈
• -d, --sudo — use sudo as backend (default for lxqt-sudo & lxsudo is sudo, for lxsu su, for lxdoas doas) 💜
• -a, --doas — use doas as backend (default for lxqt-sudo & lxsudo is sudo, for lxsu su, for lxdoas doas) 🔥

lowkey important: those defaults are literally spelled out above, so read them before you start guessing which backend you're getting, bestie 🙈

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, that's not the vibe. report bugs to https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues and let the maintainers cook 🔧

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• sudo(8)
• su(1)
• doas(1)

the whole friend group, fr fr 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was created by Palo Kisa <palo.kisa@gmail.com> for LXQt project. periodt 💖

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ok that's the whole page, and the footer is just the name lxqt-sudo(1) one more time because she's the main character and she knows it — from the LXQt Module collection, this has been your girl, signing off 🎀✨🦋 slay responsibly, bestie 💜