I have noticed when a something requiring sudo (polkit I think only) pops up, the terminal window I'm using converts to a floating window. Why is this? Never noticed this before on other distros, but maybe I just didn't pay proper attention.
For instance doing 'systemctl stop ' displays this behavior.
Same here, only at the first sudo passwd, I "fixed" it with super + space
Well, it's good to know it's replicable and not just something stupid I did on my configuration.
I haven't had time to check the i3 configuration yet or somthing else
I found something interesting with regard to this (by accident).
I triggered this via 'ps -aux| grep sudo' (repeatedly but only once per terminal).
I also noticed...graphical corruption which would be either against the background OR possibly polybar. I'll look some more.
Edit: Doesn't appear to be polybar, since killing polybar and grepping sudo still causes the issue. I have a couple of other ideas...will test real quick.
Pretty sure it's the powerline setup for oh-my-zsh. I haven't poked around, but if I invoke /bin/bash before sudo, the problem doesn't occur. Being as I really don't know much about powerline, I'll stop there.
Are you using another language on your computer?
If so, which one (if you don't mind me asking)
Nope. American English.
Hi, I also have this issue with an almost brand new Garuda install. Has anyone been able to fix it?
Since I just solve it with Super+Space I didn't investigate.
Possibly you can catch it somewhere in the i3 conf but the effort is somehow not worth it as rarely as that occurs with me
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Thank you!
I have just uninstalled oh my zsh and that seems to have fixed it.
UPDATE: I found the issue. There is a line in the i3 config file that sets all windows with "sudo" in the title to floating mode. Search "tile=sudo" in your config to find it.
The whole line to remove is:
for_window [title="sudo"] floating enable border normal
Hope this helps people that stumble across this page.
I will fix today, thank you
I wonder why I never found that...oh, probably because I was mostly using sway, which also sources i3 files (forgot that) in an attempt to be fully compatible.