On running gui applications as root

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Nov 19 13:31:19 UTC 2015



Am 19.11.2015 um 13:57 schrieb Simon Farnsworth:
> Put another way: "sudo emacs /etc/hosts" will break under Wayland

than wayland is currently not useable and ready to replace X11

as user i don't care if the application needs to be fixed or wayland 
lacks whatever but given that there are a bazillion more applications 
compared to X11 versus wayland it's pretty clear where to start

> "sudo -e
> /etc/hosts", "emacsclient /sudo::/etc/hosts" and "emacs /sudo::/etc/hosts"
> will all still work as they do today, as will "emacs --eval (find-file
> /sudo::/etc/hosts)"

horrible workarounds

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