On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > In a fresh install of f26, I get > cannot open display: 0: > when I try to run a X application (for example gparted) with root > Are there new rules to run a X application (compared with f24)? > echo $DISPLAY > 0:
This is a known behavior of Wayland. If you need to run GUI programs as root, use the X11 fallback. Running GUI programs as root isn't great practice anyway; ideally, these programs should be rewritten to have user-level GUI components and limited-functionality root-mode helpers. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
