On Friday, January 18, 2019 4:52:45 AM EST Chris Rouch wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 06:31, Robert McBroom via users <
users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Upgraded to F29. On KDE desktop starting EMACS in a privileged command
> window locks the system. Starting EMACS with sudo locks the system. On
> XFCE4 normal EMACS access with privilege.
>
> Other file managers don't like root but there are times when cli is
> awkward.
I narrowed this down to xfconf-4.13.6-2.fc29.x86_64. Using an older version
or removing it entirely makes emacs from sudo work as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667375
Regards,
Chris
That said, please *do not run Emacs as root*, but rather try to use TRAMP and
sudo to access files when you need root permissions.
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