Dont dim desktop when asking password for administrative changes

Question

Is there an option to turn off dimming the desktop when asking/prompting the password for administrative tasks? Like in Windows User Account Control.

It hurts my eyes everytime it dims my desktop instantly.

Answer 1

Open Configuration Editor (gconf-editor) and navigate to /apps/gksu. Now, tick off the box that says 'Disable Grab'. Alternatively, you could run

gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/gksu/disable-grab "True"

in a terminal.