[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 103894] Synaptic Package Manager and other apps that want to display as root will not run on wayland by default

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103894

--- Comment #1 from Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> ---
Yeah, that's the solution for X11 apps running as root. On one hand, I
understand the user desire, on the other hand running an X11 app as root raises
a big red flag and an alarm siren. It is something people just should not do.

Doesn't Synaptic have any separation between the UI process and the privileged
operations? Do you actually run it as root on an Xorg-based desktop as well?

I would imagine that usually you run the GUI app as a normal user, and then it
uses either a privileged system service or a setuid-root helper tool to do the
privileged bits.

So, I'm torn. It would be good to document the right way to let a program
running as root to connect to Xwayland, but OTOH it should not be encouraged.
It is definitely not something a newbie should be doing at all.

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