Wayland is designed to not allow elevated (sudo -H, gksu ...) permissions with GUI application programs.
There is a workaround to allow graphical application programs owned by other users than the logged in user in Wayland: xhost +si:localuser:root Take a look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland/gks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1731324 Title: synaptic does not run under wayland To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1731324/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
