Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Bionic Beaver I can no longer run synaptic from the CLI with either the GNOME or Wayland desktop manager. This is the error I get:
~$ sudo synaptic No protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (synaptic:17889): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:48:19.457: cannot open display: :0 I cannot run synaptic from CLI as root even with ~$ xhost +si:localuser:root Apparently there is a permanent fix by modifying synaptic < https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1712089>: " If I'm not wrong, this is a design decision of wayland. synaptic should really look at adding polkit support to gain the root privileges instead of running the full ui as root " I am not a programmer and am not comfortable with the CLI, so I have no idea what polkit is. Regards, Hedley -- 1/17 Glyndon Road, Camberwell VIC 3124, Australia hedley.fin...@gmail.com Telephone 03 9836 4635 Mobile 0412 461 558 LinuxCounter.net registered computer 576484 (course there are more Linux users than that!)
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