On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:51:13 -0400 gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> 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 Sorry, I've come in late here, but can you not run Synaptic from the standard menu entry? It issues the command synaptic-pkexec, as others have said. I believe policykit does not allow the use of Synaptic with sudo, only with the root password. I'm on Xfce4 on sid. Loads of Wayland lib stuff, definitely no Wayland graphics. -- Joe
