[Fedora 23 beta] Under Wayland, apps run via su or sudo are not authorised to connect to the X11 display server

[František Zatloukal]

Hi Mike,
I've reported it already:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266792

2015-10-05 12:17 GMT+02:00 Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood at googlemail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm an upstream GParted developer and I recently looked at this bug
> report:
>
> [Bug 1266771] In Wayland mode, gparted wont start from terminal ( eg
> sudo gparted /dev/sda )
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266771
>
> I concluded that gdm (GNOME Display Manager) doesn't set-up an xauth
> token when logging the user in when they select "GNOME on Wayland" where
> it does when they use the "GNONE" on native X11 display server.  This
> leads to apps run via su and sudo not working because they aren't
> authorised to connect to the X11 display server.
>
> Just wanted to draw your attention to this so you can evaluate if it is
> intended or a significant bug.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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