On 6/20/23 08:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:36:20AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
from an xfce4 terminal shell, it bitches about wayland and exits,
Please show the command you typed, and the full output of that command.
It's pretty irritating that we have to ASK for that. You should know
to provide such basic information already.
.
I just did in my reply to Felix, but:
gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic
[sudo] password for gene:
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect:
Connection refused
Failed to initialize GTK.
Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission.
Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without
root permission
gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo -E synaptic
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect:
Connection refused
Failed to initialize GTK.
Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission.
Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without
root permission
Thanks Greg.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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