"Wayland" doesn't appear to care how many bugs they have created with their philosophical decision to not allow actions like "sudo synaptic" starting a graphical application from the command line. Is there any rationale??
Thanks, Jerry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Lubuntu Packages Team, which is subscribed to synaptic in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Status in Software Updater: New Status in synaptic package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: List of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. List of packages which use su-to-root and gksu/gksudo is located in bug 1713311. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- pkexec'ed applications may be healed with "xhost +si:localuser:root" placed in XDG autostart as follows: cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/xdg/autostart/xhost.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=xhost Comment=Fix graphical root applications Exec="xhost +si:localuser:root" Terminal=false Type=Application EOF ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: GNOME Applications under Wayland GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can run a GTK+ application under Wayland simply by: GDK_BACKEND=wayland gnome-calculator Applications that use Clutter or clutter-gtk also need the Clutter Wayland backend enabled: GDK_BACKEND=wayland CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland cheese https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/Applications ======> so hope the settings are well set at compile time; maybe a rebuilt to get sure all apps are ok. ******************************************************************************************************************************************** With the today packages upgrade, switching from X11 to wayland, synaptic refuse to load/open: from the icon into the dash-to-dock, nothing happen from the terminal: sudo synaptic [sudo] password for oem: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (synaptic:2154): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 Previous days already have switching some packages to wayland, but synaptic was still working. Its only with the today upgrades, after a cold reboot, that synaptic gui is broken. Today possibly sources problem: Unpacking console-setup-linux (1.142ubuntu7) over (1.142ubuntu5) ... Unpacking console-setup (1.142ubuntu7) over (1.142ubuntu5) ... Unpacking keyboard-configuration (1.142ubuntu7) over (1.142ubuntu5) ... Unpacking gnome-session-bin (3.24.1-0ubuntu22) over (3.24.1-0ubuntu21) ... Unpacking gdm3 (3.25.90.1-0ubuntu2) over (3.25.90.1-0ubuntu1) ... Unpacking libgdm1 (3.25.90.1-0ubuntu2) over (3.25.90.1-0ubuntu1) ... Unpacking gir1.2-gdm-1.0 (3.25.90.1-0ubuntu2) over (3.25.90.1-0ubuntu1) ... Unpacking ubuntu-session (3.24.1-0ubuntu22) over (3.24.1-0ubuntu21) ... Unpacking gnome-session (3.24.1-0ubuntu22) over (3.24.1-0ubuntu21) ... ... Unpacking gnome-session-common (3.24.1-0ubuntu22) over (3.24.1-0ubuntu21) ... Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.142ubuntu7) ... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: synaptic 0.84.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Mon Aug 21 16:21:47 2017 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: synaptic UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/1712089/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-admins Post to : lubuntu-admins@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-admins More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
