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title="NEW - Synaptic Package Manager and other apps that want to display as root will not run on wayland by default"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103894">103894</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Synaptic Package Manager and other apps that want to display as root will not run on wayland by default
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Wayland
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>critical
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>wayland
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>wayland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mback@yahoo.com
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<pre>Problem: Common and easily fixable issues are not documented on the Wayland
website -- and that can cause Newbs to give up prematurely on Wayland.
What I would like to see as a fix: Please create a place on your website that
talks about common problems with Wayland and solutions to those problems.
Further discussion:
The fix/workaround for the Synaptic problem is easy and available:
xhost +si:localuser:root
(place in Startup Application Preferences -- on Gnome)
The issue is that we users (meaning everyone that needs Synaptic on Linux --
meaning... _everyone_) have to hunt all over the Internet to find it. It is
really bad in terms of experience for those that use Wayland for the first
time:
<a href="https://youtu.be/Z0N8OAkiK-g">https://youtu.be/Z0N8OAkiK-g</a>
Please create a place on your website that talks about common problems with
Wayland and solutions to those problems.</pre>
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