Bug#854627: root application will not run under wayland

2018-03-05 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, Andrius Štikona and Markus Ongyerth are totally right, AFAIK. If it's an X11 app that simply cannot be run without root, then you need the xhost command to allow only local connections from the root user. If it's a native Wayland app that cannot run without root, then you probably b

Bug#854627: root application will not run under wayland

2018-02-28 Thread Markus Ongyerth
Hi, The cause of this problem is with how the X server is started by the gnome session (or to my knowledge all current wayland compositors). Usually the xorg-xserver will have a magic cookie file somewhere protected by the unix user permissions that can be used to gain access to the server. Thi