On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:22:52PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 02:48:42PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > [...] > > Personally, I'd suggest the second approach, but either would work. > > Personally I consider it a feature that you're not able to run > gui applications as root under wayland session. Modern applications > should really implement privilegies separation and the supported > way in gnome is via polkit..... just my opinion though.
Applications *should* do that, yes, and by all means let's push applications to do so. In the meantime, however, this represents a regression from X-based GNOME sessions. In those sessions, you could by default run graphical applications with sudo and have them Just Work. In the Wayland-based sessions, you cannot do so, and you'll get mysterious errors instead. I ran into this issue precisely because I'd upgraded and otherwise transparently found myself running Wayland, right up until I tried to run an application as root. - Josh Triplett
