[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 772875] [wayland] can't run application as root using sudo

[gtk+ (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772875

Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |mclasen at redhat.com
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #1 from Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> ---
Not a bug, per se. Running graphical applications as root in this way is not
the recommended way to go about things.

If you insist,
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$PID gedit
will work as root

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