UAC Polkit Agent

UAC Polkit Agent is an alternative frontend designed to look like the User Account Control dialog on Windows Vista and 7. It's designed to coexist alongside polkit-kde-agent-1, which can be replaced session-wide by setting the USE_UAC_AGENT environment variable to 1. If the environment variable isn't defined, the regular Plasma agent is activated instead. This is done by creating an appropriate systemd drop-in file which handles the override logic. This is intended to be used with the AeroShell-based sessions, while the regular Plasma agent is used in the Plasma session.

Standalone usage

In case polkit-kde-agent-1 isn't installed on the system, the user can use the uac-polkit-agent systemd service:

$ systemctl --user start uac-polkit-agent.service

Window rule

To disable caption buttons other than the close button for the dialog, a KWin rule is needed. To add the KWin rule for the specific user, simply run the add_rule.sh script:

$ chmod +x add_rule.sh
$ ./add_rule.sh