Bug 613976

Summary:	polkit shows authentication dialog on display 0 not the desired one
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Vladimir Benes <vbenes>
Component:	polkit-gnome	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	cmeadors, mclasen, ohudlick
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Description Vladimir Benes 2010-07-13 12:20:39 UTC

Description of problem:
when running vnc session from terminal from GNOME authenticating dialog shows itself on screen 0 not in the vnc session one. What more if I run vnc session with running Xorg authentication fails by default.
Hardcoded display 0? 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
polkit-0.96-2.el6.x86_64
polkit-gnome-0.96-3.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.open vnc session from GNOME
2.connect to the session
3.install package via add/remove software app
  
Actual results:
auth dialog shows on display 0

Expected results:
auth dialog shown on the same display as app needing it 

Additional info:

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2010-07-13 13:59:40 UTC

This is a problem with VNC not properly registering with ConsoleKit. Since polkit relies on ConsoleKit having correct information available, this isn't something that can be fixed in polkit. I think bug 528511 is related to this.