I am running a Wayland session, so yes, it could be related:
adam@frontier:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
adam@frontier:~$
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Synaptic fails to launch on Ubuntu 17.10
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